AusTraits

Ehrharta pusilla

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Family Poaceae

Taxonomy: Ehrharta pusilla Nees ex Trin.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised)

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (8), Burrows_2008_2 (5), Burrows_2020 (5), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 16 traits from 32 records in 8 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (3); herb (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): caespitose (2); prostrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • reproductive_maturity (numerical): 1 a (1-1 a) [sources: Burrows_2020]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.3 m (0.2-0.4 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_202368Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Burrows_2008_255N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
Burrows_202055N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_223Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.