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Lachnagrostis rudis

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Family Poaceae

Taxonomy: Lachnagrostis rudis (Roem. & Schult.) Trin.

Synonyms: 13 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Agrostis aequata Nees (taxonomic synonym)
  • Agrostis rudis Roem. & Schult. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Agrostis scabra R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Calamagrostis aequata (Nees) J.M.Black (taxonomic synonym)
  • Calamagrostis rudis (Roem. & Schult.) Steud. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Deyeuxia aequata (Nees) Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Deyeuxia scabra Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Deyeuxia scabra Kunth (taxonomic synonym)
  • Lachnagrostis aequata (Nees) S.W.L.Jacobs (taxonomic synonym)
  • Lachnagrostis scabra A.J.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Lachnagrostis scabra S.W.L.Jacobs (taxonomic synonym)
  • Lachnagrostis scabra Steud. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Lachnagrostis scabra subsp. curviseta A.J.Br. (taxonomic synonym)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (8), ABRS_2023 (23), Draper_2023 (3), GrassBase_2014 (12), Jordan_2001 (14), Kew_2019_6 (1), Mokany_2015 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (1), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (7), Osborne_2014 (2), SAH_2022 (6), SAH_2023 (15), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (54). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 39 traits from 155 records in 16 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 (2); monoecious (2) [sources: Jordan_2001]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 471.24 mm2 (471.24-471.24 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 146.67 mm (100-170 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; GrassBase_2014]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 3.46 mm (1.5-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; GrassBase_2014; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): sheathing (3) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (5) [sources: Osborne_2014; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (6); herb (6); tussock (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (7); perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001; NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): caespitose (1); decumbent (2); erect (1); rhizomatous (1); stoloniferous (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (3) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (3) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (3); self (1); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); epizoochory (3) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): mammals (3); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnny (3); yynnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (3) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (3) [sources: White_2020]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (3) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.88 mm (1.5-2.25 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20201854M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_2023923Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_2023615S. 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_2001714G. 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_2014312W. 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_202248Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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_202236S. 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/.
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/.
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_201522K. 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.
Osborne_201412C. 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_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_611Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2014_211Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.