GROWTH | Growth habit | Dominant growth habit | D - Initially erect, but later cascading growth | APG QLD Regen 2019-20 Brachiaria Urochloa | | |
GROWTH | Mode of spread | Dominant mode of spread (at 1st flower) | S - Strongly stoloniferous | APG QLD Regen 2019-20 Brachiaria Urochloa | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Perenniality | plant perenniality | STRONGLY PERENNIAL - Strongly Perennial | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Plant Dimensions | height (cm) and diameter (cm) of typical plant | 100:20:00 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Flowering | earliness to flowering | MEDIUM - Medium Flowering | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Peak Flowering | months when peak flowering occurred | Dec-Feb | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Spread Method | method by which accession spreads | SEED - Seed | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Grazed Habit | growth habit of plants under moderate to heavy grazing | BUSH - Bush | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Leaf hairs | Leaf surface hairiness, fully expanded leaves (at 1st flower) | 4 - Dense hairs | APG QLD Regen 2019-20 Brachiaria Urochloa | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Leaf sheath hairs | Leaf sheath surface hairiness, fully expanded leaves (at 1st flower) | 4 - Dense hairs | APG QLD Regen 2019-20 Brachiaria Urochloa | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Leaf colour (dominant) | Dominant leaf colour 4-6 nodes from branch tip (at 1st flower) | mid green | APG QLD Regen 2019-20 Brachiaria Urochloa | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Culm colour (dominant) | Dominant culm colour (10-20 days after 1st flower) | mid green | APG QLD Regen 2019-20 Brachiaria Urochloa | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Culm colour (secondary) | Secondary culm colour (10-20 days after 1st flower) | burgundy | APG QLD Regen 2019-20 Brachiaria Urochloa | | |
MORPHOLOGY | 1000 Seed Weight | Weight of 1000 seeds in grams | 1 | APG QLD Regen 2019-20 Brachiaria Urochloa | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Maximum leaf length | Maximum leaf size of fully expanded leaves (at first flower) | 5 - >40 cm | APG QLD Regen 2019-20 Brachiaria Urochloa | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Leaf colour (secondary) | Secondary leaf colour 4-6 nodes from branch tip (at 1st flower) | burgundy | APG QLD Regen 2019-20 Brachiaria Urochloa | | |
OTHER | wet down date | Date seeds were first wetted for germination (in laboratory) | 8/10/2019 12:00:00 AM | APG QLD Regen 2019-20 Brachiaria Urochloa | | |
PHENOLOGY | Days to First Flower | Days from wetting up to start of flowering phase | 90 | APG QLD Regen 2019-20 Brachiaria Urochloa | | |
PHENOLOGY | Minimum canopy height | Minimum canopy (foliage) height (cm) (without support) (30-50 days after 1st flower) | 30 | APG QLD Regen 2019-20 Brachiaria Urochloa | | |
PHENOLOGY | Maximum canopy height | Maximum canopy (foliage) height (cm) (without support) (30-50 days after 1st flower) | 60 | APG QLD Regen 2019-20 Brachiaria Urochloa | | |
PHENOLOGY | Minimum seedhead height | Minimum flower (foliage) height (cm) (30-50 days after 1st flower) | 60 | APG QLD Regen 2019-20 Brachiaria Urochloa | | |
PHENOLOGY | Maximum seeedhead height | Maximum flower (foliage) height (cm) (30-50 days after 1st flower) | 100 | APG QLD Regen 2019-20 Brachiaria Urochloa | | |
PHENOLOGY | Leafiness rating - principal | Estimate of leaf vs non-leaf material compared to principal (30-50 days after 1st flower) | 3 - Greater than comparator | APG QLD Regen 2019-20 Brachiaria Urochloa | | |
PHENOLOGY | Seed production (subsidiary) | Estimate of seed production relative to the subsidiary comparator (where present) | 2 - Similar to comparator | APG QLD Regen 2019-20 Brachiaria Urochloa | | |
PRODUCTION | Establishment | establishment rating from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent) | 7 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
PRODUCTION | Establishment Variation | variation in establishment ratings at different locations from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent) | 2-Aug | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
PRODUCTION | Persistence | persistence rating from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent) | 5 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
PRODUCTION | Seed Production | rating for seed production from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent) | 8 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
PRODUCTION | Rate Of Spread | assessment how accessions spreads from 1 (negligible) to 8 (like bad weed) | 1 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
PRODUCTION | Out Of Season Green | rating for out-of-season greeness during non-growing period of species (normally winter for tropical forages) | 1 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
PRODUCTION | Leafiness | rating for above-ground leafiness from 1 (no leaf) to 8 (extremely leafy) | 4 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
PRODUCTION | Competitiveness | rating for plant competitiveness from 1 (poor) to 8 (highly competitive) | 5 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
PRODUCTION | Toxicity | rating of toxicity to animals from 1 (no problems) to 8 (highly toxic at all times to mammals) | 1 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
PRODUCTION | Grazing Tolerance | rating on tolerance to grazing from 1 (low tolerance) to 8 (high tolerance to severe & repeated grazing) | 6 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
PRODUCTION | Palatability Green | rating on palatability of plants when green and actively growing from 1 (very low) to 8 (very palatable) | 5 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
PRODUCTION | Palatability Dry | rating of palatability of plants when hayed off or dormant from 1 (very low) to 8 (very palatable) | 4 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
PRODUCTION | Adaptation To Sand | rating for adaptation to sandy soil from 1 (very poor) to 8 (well adapted) | 8 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
PRODUCTION | Pasture Potential | rating for pasture potential 1 (no potential because seedlings died or serious weed) to 8 (high potential on broad scale) | 6 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
PRODUCTION | Flowering and seed set | Estimate of seed production capacity | 3 - Sparse flowering, ready seed set (few empty florets) | APG QLD Regen 2019-20 Brachiaria Urochloa | | |
PRODUCTION | Trait Agronomic Value | Subjective rating (one to five ) based on the overall appearance of an accessions agronomic potential | 4 - Good | APG QLD Regen 2019-20 Brachiaria Urochloa | | |
PRODUCTION | Trait Agronomic Value Comment | Comment for trait agronomic value | hairy, leafy | APG QLD Regen 2019-20 Brachiaria Urochloa | | |
STRESS | Drought Tolerance | rating of drought tolerance from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent) | 6 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
STRESS | Frost Tolerance | rating of plant frost tolerance from 1 (killed by light frost) to 8 (not killed by repeated serve radiation frosts) | 6 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |