Sorghum brachypodum
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Family Poaceae
Taxonomy: Sorghum brachypodum Lazarides
Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30
Distribution (APC): NT
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: GrassBase_2014 (4), Osborne_2014 (1), Schmidt_2003 (22), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 11 traits from 30 records in 5 datasets.
Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.
leaf morphology
- leaf_width (numerical): 6 mm (4-8 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c4 (1) [sources: Osborne_2014]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (1); herb (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): annual (2) [sources: Schmidt_2003; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
- root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
nutrient and stable isotope
- leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 8.67 mg/g (5-15 mg/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.75 m (1-2.5 m) [sources: GrassBase_2014]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schmidt_2003 | 7 | 22 | S. Schmidt and G. R. Stewart. “d15N values of tropical savanna and monsoon forest species reflect root specialisations and soil nitrogen status”. Oecologia 134 (2003), pp. 569-577. doi: 10.1007/s00442-002-1150-y. |
| GrassBase_2014 | 2 | 4 | 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. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| 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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |