Hordeum murinum

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Family Poaceae

Taxonomy: Hordeum murinum L.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Critesion murinum (L.) Á.Löve (nomenclatural synonym)
Hordeum murinum L. subsp. murinum (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (9), Cheal_2017 (7), 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 18 traits from 29 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 110 mm (20-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 5 mm (2-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): falcate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (3); herb (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (4); short_lived_perennial (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cheal_2017; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): widely_dispersed (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.18 m (0.15-0.2 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	7	9	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cheal_2017	7	7	D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
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.
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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.