Poa labillardierei var. labillardierei

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Family Poaceae

Taxonomy: Poa labillardierei Steud. var. labillardierei

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Poa labillardieri N.T.Burb. & M.Gray var. labillardieri (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (7), Catford_2014 (8), Doherty_2021 (2), GrassBase_2014 (6), Kew_2019_1 (1), Metcalfe_2020_2 (14), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (6), NSWFRD_2014 (8), Osborne_2014 (1), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (18). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 48 traits from 91 records in 16 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (2) [sources: Doherty_2021; NSWFRD_2014]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 12 mo (12-12 mo) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Metcalfe_2020_2; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 556.73 mm2 (315.47-798 mm2) [sources: Catford_2014; Metcalfe_2020_2]
leaf_length (numerical): 660 mm (150-800 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; GrassBase_2014; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 3.15 mm (0.6-5 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014; RBGV_2023]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 68.5 mg (68.5-68.5 mg) [sources: Catford_2014]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 217.03 g/m2 (217.03-217.03 g/m2) [sources: Catford_2014]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): sheathing (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): conduplicate (1); flat (3); involute (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1); not_glaucous (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Osborne_2014; White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (4); herb (2); tussock (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Catford_2014; Metcalfe_2020_2; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_form (categorical): hemicryptophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Catford_2014; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): caespitose (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
root_structure (categorical): non_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (1); wind (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); epizoochory (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): mammals (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnyyy (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1); transient (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1); vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; White_2020]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): belowground_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
bud_bank_location (categorical): bud-bearing_root (1) [sources: Doherty_2021]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.31 mg (0.3-0.32 mg) [sources: Catford_2014; Kew_2019_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.98 m (0.3-1.2 m) [sources: GrassBase_2014; NHNSW_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	18	18	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Metcalfe_2020_2	14	14	D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Traits of Poaceae spp, CSIRO”. 2020.
Catford_2014	8	8	J. A. Catford, W. K. Morris, P. A. Vesk, C. J. Gippel, and B. J. Downes. “Species and environmental characteristics point to flow regulation and drought as drivers of riparian plant invasion”. Diversity and Distributions 20 (2014), pp. 1084-1096. doi: 10.1111/ddi.12225.
NSWFRD_2014	8	8	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
ABRS_2023	7	7	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
NHNSW_2023	6	6	N. 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/.
RBGV_2023	6	6	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	N. 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_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Doherty_2021	2	2	M. Doherty. “Fire Severity and Plant Community Dynamics in the Australian Alps, Southeastern New South Wales”. PhD. Australian National University, 2021. url: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/224564.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.