AusTraits

Oryza australiensis

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Family Poaceae

Taxonomy: Oryza australiensis Domin

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Oryza sativa L. (misapplied)
  • Oryza sativa L. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (10), Crowley_2007 (2), GrassBase_2014 (8), Hall_1981 (7), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (5), Metcalfe_2020_2 (18), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014 (1), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (12), Nano_2011 (2), Osborne_2014 (1), Simpson_2021 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (5). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 41 traits from 94 records in 21 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): gynomonoecious (1); hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 5.42 mm (4.5-6.4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Metcalfe_2020_2; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 2.25 mm (2-2.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Metcalfe_2020_2; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006; WAH_2023_2]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); red (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 1147.5 mm2 (1147.5-1147.5 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 301.67 mm (100-500 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; GrassBase_2014; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 8.5 mm (3-14 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; GrassBase_2014; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Munroe_2019; Osborne_2014]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (4); herb (3); tussock (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Hall_1981; Metcalfe_2020_2; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_form (categorical): hemicryptophyte (1); therophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (2); perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Simpson_2021; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): rhizomatous (1); stoloniferous (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022]
  • root_structure (categorical): non_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyyyynnnn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): belowground_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2); rhizome (1) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; Simpson_2021]
nutrient and stable isotope
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 14.63 mg (14.63-14.63 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 5.55 mm (4.7-6.4 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2.3 m (1-3 m) [sources: GrassBase_2014; Metcalfe_2020_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Metcalfe_2020_21718D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Traits of Poaceae spp, CSIRO”. 2020.
NTH_2023812D. 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/.
ABRS_2023710Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
GrassBase_201448W. Clayton, M. Vorontsova, and K. H. &. H. Williamson. GrassBase - The online world grass flora. 2006. url: http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db.html.
Hall_198137T. J. Hall. “The nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations of some pasture species in the Dichanthium-Eulalia Grasslands of North-West Queensland.”. The Rangeland Journal 3.1 (1981), pp. 67-73. doi: 10.1071/rj9810067.
Kew_2019_615Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
eFLOWER_Dun_202255L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
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.
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.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Simpson_202122K. J. Simpson, E. C. Jardine, S. Archibald, E. J. Forrestel, C. E. R. Lehmann, G. H. Thomas, and C. P. Osborne. “Resprouting grasses are associated with less frequent fire than seeders”. New Phytologist 230 (2021), pp. 832-844. doi: 10.1111/nph.17069.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
NHNSW_201411Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/search/simple.htm.
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.