Digitaria nematostachya
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Family Poaceae
Taxonomy: Digitaria nematostachya (F.M.Bailey) Henrard
Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Digitaria tonsa Hughes (taxonomic synonym)
- Panicum divaricatissimum var. radiatum (R.Br.) Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
- Panicum nematostachyum F.M.Bailey (nomenclatural synonym)
- Panicum radiatum R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: GrassBase_2014 (6), Metcalfe_2020_2 (33), NHNSW_2014 (1), Osborne_2014 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 54 records in 9 datasets.
Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (4) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006; WAH_2023_2]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2); indehiscent (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_area (numerical): 462.38 mm2 (436.5-488.25 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- leaf_length (numerical): 152.5 mm (60-250 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014; Metcalfe_2020_2]
- leaf_width (numerical): 5.05 mm (3.5-7 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014; Metcalfe_2020_2]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c4 (1) [sources: Osborne_2014]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (1); herb (1); tussock (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_form (categorical): hemicryptophyte (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- root_structure (categorical): non_mycorrhizal (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): wind (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- flowering_time (categorical): yynnnyynnnnn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): belowground_clonal (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.5 m (0.3-0.6 m) [sources: GrassBase_2014; Metcalfe_2020_2; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metcalfe_2020_2 | 17 | 33 | D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Traits of Poaceae spp, CSIRO”. 2020. |
| GrassBase_2014 | 3 | 6 | W. Clayton, M. Vorontsova, and K. H. &. H. Williamson. GrassBase - The online world grass flora. 2006. url: http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db.html. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 4 | 4 | A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 3 | 3 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 2 | 3 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| NHNSW_2014 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/search/simple.htm. |
| Osborne_2014 | 1 | 1 | C. Osborne, A. Salomaa, T. Kluyver, V. Visser, E. Kellogg, O. Morrone, M. Vorontsova, W. Clayton, and D. Simpson. “A global database of C4 photosynthesis in grasses”. New Phytologist 204 (2014), pp. 441-446. doi: 10.1111/nph.12942. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |