Rytidosperma alpicola

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Family Poaceae

Taxonomy: Rytidosperma alpicola (Vickery) Connor & Edgar

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)

Austrodanthonia alpicola (Vickery) H.P.Linder (nomenclatural synonym)
Danthonia alpicola Vickery (nomenclatural synonym)
Danthonia semiannularis var. alpina Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Notodanthonia alpicola (Vickery) Veldkamp (nomenclatural synonym)
Rytidosperma alpicolum Connor & Edgar (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): NSW, ACT, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (4), ANBG_2019 (11), Cheal_2017 (6), GrassBase_2014 (8), Kew_2019_1 (1), NHNSW_2014 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (6), Osborne_2014 (1), Pickering_2014 (4), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Vesk_2007 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (36). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 43 traits from 111 records in 19 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 (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 1.95 mm (1.7-2.2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 81.9 mm2 (81.9-81.9 mm2) [sources: Pickering_2014]
leaf_length (numerical): 97.5 mm (50-120 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014; RBGV_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 166.89 g/m2 (117.22-270.27 g/m2) [sources: Pickering_2014; Vesk_2007]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.48 g/g (0.48-0.48 g/g) [sources: Pickering_2014]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): sheathing (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): conduplicate (2); flat (1); involute (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: 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: Osborne_2014; White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (4); herb (3); tussock (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Pickering_2014; RBGV_2022; Vesk_2007; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cheal_2017; 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); compact (1); erect (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (2) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): epizoochory (2) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): mammals (2) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnny (1); yynnnnnnnnny (3) [sources: NHNSW_2014; NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.15 mg (0.65-2.68 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 1.95 mm (1.7-2.2 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.3 m (0.08-0.4 m) [sources: GrassBase_2014; NHNSW_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (2) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	18	36	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ANBG_2019	1	11	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
GrassBase_2014	4	8	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.
Cheal_2017	6	6	D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
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/.
Vesk_2007	2	6	P. Vesk. “Unpublished data: Leaf traits for flora of Falls Creek Victoria, University of Melbourne”. 2007.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_2023	3	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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/.
Pickering_2014	4	4	C. Pickering, K. Green, A. A. Barros, and S. Venn. “A resurvey of late-lying snowpatches reveals changes in both species and functional composition across snowmelt zones”. Alpine Botany 124.2 (2014), pp. 93-103. doi: 10.1007/s00035-014-0140-0.
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/.
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.
NHNSW_2014_2	2	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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/.
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.