AusTraits

Piptochaetium uruguense

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Family Poaceae

Taxonomy: Piptochaetium uruguense Griseb.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Vic (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (5), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 9 traits from 12 records in 5 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
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (2); herb (1) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.7 m (0.7-0.7 m) [sources: RBGV_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
RBGV_202355VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
RBGV_202233VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Yang_202311S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.