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Lachnagrostis plebeia

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Family Poaceae

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

Synonyms: 10 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Agrostis plebeia R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Calamagrostis aemula var. plebeia (R.Br.) Maiden & Betche (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Calamagrostis plebeia (R.Br.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Deyeuxia australis B.D.Jacks. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Deyeuxia australis S.W.L.Jacobs (taxonomic synonym)
  • Deyeuxia australis S.W.L.Jacobs & A.J.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Deyeuxia plebeia (R.Br.) Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Didymochaeta australis Steud. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Lachnagrostis plebeja Trin. (orthographic variant)
  • Vilfa plebeia (R.Br.) P.Beauv. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (10), GrassBase_2014 (6), Osborne_2014 (1), Tsakalos_2020 (16), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 57 records in 10 datasets.

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

fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 53.33 mm (20-120 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; GrassBase_2014; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1 mm (0.5-2.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; GrassBase_2014; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): filiform (1); linear (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): sheathing (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): conduplicate (1); flat (2); involute (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Tsakalos_2020]
  • leaf_glaucousness (categorical): not_glaucous (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Tsakalos_2020]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Osborne_2014; Tsakalos_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (4); herb (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): caespitose (1); erect (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnyyyyy (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Tsakalos_20201516J. L. Tsakalos, M. Renton, F. Riviera, E. J. Veneklaas, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Trait-based formal definition of plant functional types and functional communities in the multi-species and multi-traits context”. Ecological Complexity 40 (2019), p. 100787. doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2019.100787.
ABRS_2023810Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wheeler_2002810J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
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.
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.
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.