Oplismenus mollis

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Family Poaceae

Taxonomy: Oplismenus mollis (Domin) Clifford & G.P.Evans ex B.K.Simon

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Oplismenus undulatifolius var. mollis Domin (basionym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), GrassBase_2014 (6), Metcalfe_2020_2 (12), NHNSW_2014 (1), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (6), Osborne_2014 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wells_2012 (78), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 115 records in 11 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

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 277.99 mm2 (167.14-427.6 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_length (numerical): 55 mm (10-100 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014]
leaf_width (numerical): 10.25 mm (4-18 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 5.65 mg (3.83-7.92 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 20.76 g/m2 (18.51-22.9 g/m2) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.24 g/g (0.2-0.26 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Osborne_2014]
plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (1); herb (2); tussock (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; NHNSW_2022; Wells_2012; Wenk_2022]
life_form (categorical): hemicryptophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (2); sprawling (1) [sources: ATRP_2020; NHNSW_2022]
root_structure (categorical): non_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): wind (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Wells_2012]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyyyynnnn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.28 mg/mm3 (0.2-0.39 mg/mm3) [sources: Wells_2012]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.3 m (0.12-0.5 m) [sources: GrassBase_2014; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Wells_2012	23	78	J. A. Wells. “Phylogeny and inter-relations of ecological traits and seed dispersal in rainforest plants: Exploring aspects of functional diversity in primary and secondary rainforests in Australia's Wet Tropics.”. PhD. University of Queensland, 2012.
Metcalfe_2020_2	12	12	D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Traits of Poaceae spp, CSIRO”. 2020.
GrassBase_2014	3	6	W. Clayton, M. Vorontsova, and K. H. &. H. Williamson. GrassBase - The online world grass flora. 2006. url: http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db.html.
NHNSW_2023	5	6	N. 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/.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	N. 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/.
Sjostrom_2006	3	3	A. 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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_2020	1	1	F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
NHNSW_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/search/simple.htm.
Osborne_2014	1	1	C. 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_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.