AusTraits

Poa gunnii

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Family Poaceae

Taxonomy: Poa gunnii Vickery

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Poa australis var. monticola Hook.f. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Poa caespitosa var. alpina F.Muell. ex Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Poa caespitosa G.Forst. ex Spreng. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (9), GrassBase_2014 (6), Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kirkpatrick_2020 (1), Mokany_2015 (3), NHNSW_2014 (1), Osborne_2014 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 41 records in 12 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
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.43 mg (0.25-0.51 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Mokany_2015]
  • seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.46 m (0.05-0.7 m) [sources: GrassBase_2014; Mokany_2015]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_202379Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Jordan_200177G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
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.
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.
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.
Mokany_201533K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kirkpatrick_202011J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.