Urochloa gilesii var. gilesii
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Family Poaceae
Taxonomy: Urochloa gilesii (Benth.) Hughes var. gilesii
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Urochloa gilesii (Benth.) Hughes subsp. gilesii (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): NT, SA, Qld, NSW
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, NT eFlora, SA eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (2), GrassBase_2014 (6), NHNSW_2014 (1), Nano_2011 (2), Osborne_2014 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 10 traits from 15 records in 7 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): fire_killed (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 60 mm (20-100 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014]
- leaf_width (numerical): 8 mm (3-13 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c4 (1) [sources: Osborne_2014]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): annual (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnnnny (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.28 m (0.15-0.4 m) [sources: GrassBase_2014]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| GrassBase_2014 | 3 | 6 | 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. |
| Crowley_2007 | 2 | 2 | G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au). |
| Nano_2011 | 2 | 2 | C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| 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. |