Sorghum stipoideum
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Family Poaceae
Taxonomy: Sorghum stipoideum (Ewart & Jean White) C.A.Gardner & C.E.Hubb. ex C.E.Hubb.
Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Andropogon sargus Ewart (nomenclatural synonym)
- Andropogon stipoides (Ewart & Jean White) C.A.Gardner (nomenclatural synonym)
- Chrysopogon stipoideus (Ewart & Jean White) Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
- Sarga stipoidea Ewart & Jean White (nomenclatural synonym)
- Sorghum mjoebergii Cheel (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA, NT
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: GrassBase_2014 (4), Kew_2019_6 (1), Lord_1997 (2), Mott_1978 (36), Osborne_2014 (1), Rice_1991 (1), Stephens_2021 (2), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 10 traits from 56 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.
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (1) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
leaf morphology
- leaf_width (numerical): 37.5 mm (5-70 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c4 (1) [sources: Osborne_2014]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (3); herb (2) [sources: Lord_1997; Rice_1991; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): annual (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): epizoochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
- flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnynnnny (1); yyyyyyyynnnn (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 2 m (1-3 m) [sources: GrassBase_2014; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mott_1978 | 1 | 36 | J. J. Mott. “Dormancy and Germination in Five Native Grass Species From Savannah Woodland Communities of the Northern Territory”. Australian Journal of Botany 26.5 (1978), p. 621. ISSN: 0067-1924. doi: 10.1071/bt9780621. |
| 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. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 3 | 3 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 2 | 3 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Lord_1997 | 2 | 2 | J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x. |
| Stephens_2021 | 1 | 2 | R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Kew_2019_6 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the 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. |
| Rice_1991 | 1 | 1 | B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |