Ottochloa nodosa
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Family Poaceae
Taxonomy: Ottochloa nodosa (Kunth) Dandy
Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Ichnanthus oblongus Hughes (taxonomic synonym)
- Panicum aequabile Domin (taxonomic synonym)
- Panicum multinode J.Presl (nomenclatural synonym)
- Panicum nodosum Kunth (nomenclatural synonym)
- Panicum trachyrhachis var. tenuior Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
- Panicum trachyrhachis var. tenuius Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), GrassBase_2014 (6), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), Metcalfe_2020_2 (14), NHNSW_2014 (1), Osborne_2014 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 35 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 (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_area (numerical): 709.5 mm2 (709.5-709.5 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- leaf_length (numerical): 107.5 mm (15-200 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014]
- leaf_width (numerical): 11 mm (2-20 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Osborne_2014]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): tussock (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_form (categorical): hemicryptophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ATRP_2020; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_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): yyyyynnnnnnn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.62 mg (0.62-0.62 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.1 m (0.2-2 m) [sources: GrassBase_2014]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metcalfe_2020_2 | 14 | 14 | 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. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 4 | 4 | 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. |
| eFLOWER_Dun_2022 | 3 | 3 | L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022. |
| 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. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Kew_2019_6 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| 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. |