Festuca plebeia
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Family Poaceae
Taxonomy: Festuca plebeia R.Br.
Misapplied names: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Festuca asperula Vickery (misapplied)
- Festuca bromoides L. (pro parte misapplied)
- Festuca duriuscula L. (misapplied)
- Festuca ovina L. (misapplied)
Distribution (APC): Tas
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (11), GrassBase_2014 (6), Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (1), Mokany_2015 (1), NHNSW_2014 (1), Osborne_2014 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 39 records in 11 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); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_area (numerical): 170.82 mm2 (170.82-170.82 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
- leaf_length (numerical): 84 mm (23-145 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; GrassBase_2014]
- leaf_width (numerical): 0.75 mm (0.4-1.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; GrassBase_2014]
- leaf_shape (categorical): filiform (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_base_shape (categorical): sheathing (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_margin_posture (categorical): involute (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): conduplicate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Osborne_2014]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (2); herb (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): caespitose (1); stoloniferous (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
- flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.69 mg (0.69-0.69 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
- seed_length (numerical): 8 mm (8-8 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
- seed_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.8 m (0.7-0.9 m) [sources: GrassBase_2014]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRS_2023 | 9 | 11 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| Jordan_2001 | 7 | 7 | G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024. |
| 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. |
| ABRS_2022 | 4 | 4 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| 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. |
| 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/. |
| Mokany_2015 | 1 | 1 | K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1. |
| 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. |