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Alloteropsis semialata

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Wikipedia Abstract

Alloteropsis semialata, known commonly as black seed grass, cockatoo grass, donkersaad gras, swartsaadgras, tweevingergras, and isi quinti, is a perennial grass distributed across much of tropical and subtropical Africa, Asia and Australia, as well as Papuasia and Madagascar. The species has two subspecies including A. semialata subsp. semialata, which uses the C4 photosynthetic pathway, and A. semialata subsp. eckloniana, which uses the C3 photosynthetic pathway. As the only plant species known to use both pathways, it is an important model for the study of the evolution of photosynthesis.
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Infraspecies

Alloteropsis semialata eckloniana
Alloteropsis semialata semialata
Alloteropsis semialata var. eklonii

Attributes

Structure [1]  Grass

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♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2Species Profile and Threats Database, Australian Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
♦ 3Bubalus mindorensis, Carlo C. Custodio, Myrissa V. Lepiten, and Lawrence R. Heaney, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 520, pp. 1-5 (1996)
♦ 4The diet of the brush-tailed rabbit-rat (Conilurus penicillatus) from the monsoonal tropics of the Northern Territory, Australia, Ronald S. C. Firth, Elizabeth Jefferys, John C. Z. Woinarski and Richard A. Noske, Wildlife Research, 2005, 32, 517–523
♦ 5"Growth, seed production and effect of defoliation in an early flowering perennial grass, Alloteropsis semialata (Poaceae), on Cape York Peninsula, Australia", Gabriel M. Crowley and Stephen T. Garnett, Australian Journal of Botany 49(6) 735 - 743 (2001)
♦ 6Garnett, S.T. and Crowley, G.M. 2002. Recovery Plan for the golden-shouldered parrot Psephotus chrysopterygius 2003-2007. Report to Environment Australia, Canberra. Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, Brisbane.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0