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Isachne globosa

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Family Poaceae

Taxonomy: Isachne globosa (Thunb. ex Murray) Kuntze

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Isachne australis R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Isachne australis var. effusa Trin. ex Hook.f. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Isachne globosa (Thunb. ex Murray) Kuntze var. globosa (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Isachne globosa var. effusa (Trin. ex Hook.) Senaratna (taxonomic synonym)
  • Milium globosum Thunb. ex Murray (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Panicum antipodum Spreng. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Panicum atro-virens Trin. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Panicum australe (R.Br.) Raspail (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, NT eFlora, SA eFlora, Vic Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), GrassBase_2014 (6), Kew_2019_1 (3), Metcalfe_2020_2 (15), NHNSW_2014 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (1), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (7), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (9), Osborne_2014 (1), RBGV_2022 (5), RBGV_2023 (10), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (7), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 45 traits from 110 records in 20 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1); polygamodioecious (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (6) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • 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): 517.5 mm2 (517.5-517.5 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 66.88 mm (10-140 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 6.94 mm (1.5-20 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); linear (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (4) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Osborne_2014; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (5); graminoid_not_tussock (1); herb (3); tussock (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_form (categorical): hemicryptophyte (1); therophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • plant_growth_substrate (categorical): aquatic (1); semiaquatic (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: NTH_2022; RBGV_2022]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • root_structure (categorical): non_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (1); self (1); wind (2) [sources: Draper_2023; Metcalfe_2020_2; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); epizoochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; Metcalfe_2020_2; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1); mammals (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (1); yyyyyynnyyyy (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014; NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1); vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; White_2020]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.73 mg (0.39-0.84 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Metcalfe_2020_2]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20202020M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Metcalfe_2020_21515D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Traits of Poaceae spp, CSIRO”. 2020.
RBGV_2023810VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NTH_202379D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202367N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
SAH_202367S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
GrassBase_201436W. Clayton, M. Vorontsova, and K. H. &. H. Williamson. GrassBase - The online world grass flora. 2006. url: http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db.html.
RBGV_202255VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202244N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NTH_202244D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
eFLOWER_Dun_202234L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
Kew_2019_113Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
SAH_202233S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
NHNSW_201411Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/search/simple.htm.
NHNSW_2014_211Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Osborne_201411C. 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_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.