AusTraits

Urochloa distachya

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Family Poaceae

Taxonomy: Urochloa distachya (L.) T.Q.Nguyen

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Brachiaria distachya Stapf (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Brachiaria distachyos (L.) Stapf (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Digitaria distachya Pers. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Digitaria distachyos (L.) Pers. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Panicum distachyon L. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Panicum distachyum A.D.Chapm. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT (naturalised), Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), GrassBase_2014 (6), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), Metcalfe_2020_2 (15), 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 24 traits from 35 records in 10 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 (1); hermaphrodite (1) [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): 248.4 mm2 (248.4-248.4 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 69 mm (18-120 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 6 mm (3-9 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c4 (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Osborne_2014]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tussock (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_form (categorical): hemicryptophyte (1); therophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • root_structure (categorical): non_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): self (1); wind (2) [sources: Draper_2023; Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (2); epizoochory (1); hydrochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1); mammals_domestic (1); water (1); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyynnnn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): aboveground_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.59 mg (1.59-1.59 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.12 m (0.05-0.2 m) [sources: GrassBase_2014]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Metcalfe_2020_21515D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Traits of Poaceae spp, CSIRO”. 2020.
GrassBase_201436W. Clayton, M. Vorontsova, and K. H. &. H. Williamson. GrassBase - The online world grass flora. 2006. url: http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db.html.
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.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_611Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_201411Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/search/simple.htm.
Osborne_201411C. 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_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.