AusTraits

Panicum bisulcatum

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Family Poaceae

Taxonomy: Panicum bisulcatum Thunb.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Panicum acroanthum Steud. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Panicum melananthum F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, Vic (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: GrassBase_2014 (6), NHNSW_2014 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (5), NHNSW_2023 (7), Osborne_2014 (2), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 20 traits from 39 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1); red_brown (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); purple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Osborne_2014]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (3); herb (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (3); short_lived_perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • plant_growth_substrate (categorical): semiaquatic (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (2); stoloniferous (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyynnnnnn (1); yynnnnnnnnny (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014; NHNSW_2014_2]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -24.3 {delta}[ppth] (-24.3--24.3 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Osborne_2014]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.73 m (0.2-0.9 m) [sources: GrassBase_2014; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
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/.
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.
NHNSW_202255N. 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/.
RBGV_202355VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.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.
NHNSW_2014_222Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Osborne_201422C. 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.
NHNSW_201411Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/search/simple.htm.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.