Rytidosperma diemenicum
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Family Poaceae
Taxonomy: Rytidosperma diemenicum (D.I.Morris) A.M.Humphreys & H.P.Linder
Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Austrodanthonia diemenica (D.I.Morris) H.P.Linder (nomenclatural synonym)
- Danthonia diemenica D.I.Morris (basionym)
- Notodanthonia diemenica (D.I.Morris) H.P.Linder (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): Tas
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (3), GrassBase_2014 (8), Jordan_2001 (7), Kirkpatrick_2020 (1), Mokany_2015 (2), 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 20 traits from 34 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.
fire response
- resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (1); hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.4-1.6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- 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
- leaf_area (numerical): 818.65 mm2 (818.65-818.65 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
- leaf_length (numerical): 185 mm (120-250 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014]
- leaf_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Osborne_2014]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (1); herb (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): caespitose (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
- flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnny (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 4 mm (1.4-6.5 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001; GrassBase_2014]
- seed_width (numerical): 1.1 mm (1.1-1.1 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.46 m (0.35-0.6 m) [sources: GrassBase_2014; Mokany_2015]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Jordan_2001 | 7 | 7 | G. 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| ABRS_2023 | 2 | 3 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| Mokany_2015 | 2 | 2 | K. 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. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Kirkpatrick_2020 | 1 | 1 | J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020. |
| 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. |