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Lachnagrostis billardierei

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Family Poaceae

Taxonomy: Lachnagrostis billardierei (R.Br.) Trin.

Synonyms: 14 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Agrostis billardierei R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Agrostis billardieri R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Agrostis diffusa Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Agrostis novae-hollandiae P.Beauv. (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
  • Agrostis solandri F.Muell. (pro parte nomenclatural synonym)
  • Calamagrostis aemula var. billardierei (R.Br.) Maiden & Betche (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Calamagrostis aemula var. billardieri Maiden & Betche (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Calamagrostis billardierei (R.Br.) Steud. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Calamagrostis billardieri Steud. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Deyeuxia billardierei (R.Br.) Kunth (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Deyeuxia billardieri Kunth (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Lachnagrostis billardieri Trin. (orthographic variant)
  • Vilfa billardierei (R.Br.) P.Beauv. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Vilfa billardierii P.Beauv. (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Avena filiformis G.Forst. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA, NSW, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (10), Draper_2023 (3), GrassBase_2014 (6), Jordan_2001 (7), Mokany_2015 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), Osborne_2014 (1), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (10), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (36). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 39 traits from 93 records in 15 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1); green (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Jordan_2001]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 1374.44 mm2 (235.62-2513.27 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 283.33 mm (50-400 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; GrassBase_2014; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 4.33 mm (1-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; GrassBase_2014; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): filiform (1); linear (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): sheathing (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): conduplicate (1); flat (2); involute (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: Osborne_2014; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (3); herb (3); tussock (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (5); perennial (2); short_lived_perennial (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): caespitose (1); erect (1); rhizomatous (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (2); self (1); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); epizoochory (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): mammals (2); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1); nnnnnnnnyyyy (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3.5-3.5 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20201836M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_2023910Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_2023710S. 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/.
Jordan_200177G. 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_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.
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.
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.
Mokany_201523K. 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_233Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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/.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.