Digitaria radicosa
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Family Poaceae
Taxonomy: Digitaria radicosa (J.Presl) Miq.
Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Digitaria sp. Carson River (A.A.Mitchell 4387) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
- Panicum radicosum J.Presl (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), ChI, NT (naturalised), Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (1), Metcalfe_2020_2 (18), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 20 traits from 32 records in 7 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 (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006; WAH_2023_2]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_area (numerical): 126 mm2 (126-126 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- leaf_length (numerical): 60 mm (20-100 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- leaf_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (2-5 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (1); herb (1); tussock (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_form (categorical): therophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- life_history (categorical): annual (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): spreading (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- root_structure (categorical): non_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.24 mg (0.24-0.24 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.35 m (0.1-0.6 m) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metcalfe_2020_2 | 16 | 18 | D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Traits of Poaceae spp, CSIRO”. 2020. |
| 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 | 4 | 4 | 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 | 2 | 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. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |