AusTraits

Setaria barbata

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Family Poaceae

Taxonomy: Setaria barbata (Lam.) Kunth

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Chaetochloa barbata (Lam.) Hitchc. & Chase (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Panicum barbatum Lam. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld (doubtfully naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Metcalfe_2020_2 (20), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 20 traits from 27 records in 4 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 1837.5 mm2 (1837.5-1837.5 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 175 mm (50-300 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 17.5 mm (5-30 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.14 mg (1.14-1.14 mg) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2 m (2-2 m) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Metcalfe_2020_21820D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Traits of Poaceae spp, CSIRO”. 2020.
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.
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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.