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Urochloa holosericea subsp. velutina

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Family Poaceae

Taxonomy: Urochloa holosericea subsp. velutina R.D.Webster

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Brachiaria holosericea subsp. velutina (R.D.Webster) B.K.Simon (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: GrassBase_2014 (8), Metcalfe_2020_2 (16), Osborne_2014 (1), Stephens_2021 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 36 records in 8 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): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 1.38 mm (1.25-1.5 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • fruit_type (categorical): caryopsis (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2; WAH_2023_2]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 121.5 mm2 (121.5-121.5 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 45 mm (10-80 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (2-7 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_2]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.38 mm (1.25-1.5 mm) [sources: GrassBase_2014]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.42 m (0.15-0.7 m) [sources: GrassBase_2014; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Metcalfe_2020_21516D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Traits of Poaceae spp, CSIRO”. 2020.
GrassBase_201448W. 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_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_223Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.
Stephens_202111R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.