Details for: APG 48338, Desmanthus virgatus (L.) Willd., MEX 123

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Desmanthus virgatus (L.) Willd.

Top Name:

MEX 123

Origin:

Collected – Mexico

Maintained:

Australian Pastures Genebank

Received by APG:

01 Jan 1980

Improvement Status:

Wild material

Form Received:

Seed

Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Seed	200 count		BASE 48338 1989___1_____ SD

There are no images for this accession.

Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Desmanthus virgatus (L.) Willd.

Top Name:

MEX 123

Origin:

Collected – Mexico

Maintained:

Australian Pastures Genebank

Received by APG:

01 Jan 1980

Improvement Status:

Wild material

Form Received:

Seed

Source History

Collected

23 November 1979.
Locality: 100KM N.W. NUEVA ROSITA RD. BOQUILLAS DEL CARMEN,
Aspect: Flat; Coll Source: Wild; Landuse: Grassland/Meadow; Propagule: Seed; Parentrock: Limestone, Dolomites; Ph: 8; Slope: Level; Soil Drainage: Moist; Soil_Texture: Clay; Rainfall: 400

23 November 1979. Mexico
Coordinates: 28.4200, -101.8300 (Map it)
Elevation: 400m.

Collector(s):

Reid, Bob CSIRO Tropical Crops & Pastures

Donated

01 January 1980. Mexico

Donator(s):

Reid, Bob CSIRO Tropical Crops & Pastures

01 July 2014. Australia

Donator(s):

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

08 September 2015. Australia

Donator(s):

Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Queensland

Accession Names and Identifiers

MEX 123

Type: Unverified name

AusTRCF 85173

Type: Donor identifier

Group: AusTRCF

Austraian Tropical Forage

CPI 85173

Type: Institute identifier

Group: CPI

Commonwealth Plant Introduction

ALP 1.4

Type: Priority Score

Narrative

Group Note

Desmanthus virgatus (L.) Willd.

Genus:

Desmanthus

Family:

Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)

Subfamily:

Mimosoideae

Tribe:

Mimoseae

Nomen number:

300178

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 4(2):1047. 1806

Verified:

01/18/2001 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Common names

Other conspecific taxa

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Basionym

Mimosa virgata L.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)

Desmanthus depressus Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.
Desmanthus virgatus (L.) Willd. var. depressus (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) B. L. Turner

Annotations

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Study
COMMENT	Notes	notes on diseases, pests, asset or weaknesses of accession	prostrate	TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED
MORPHOLOGY	Perenniality	plant perenniality	STRONGLY PERENNIAL - Strongly Perennial	TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED
MORPHOLOGY	Plant Dimensions	height (cm) and diameter (cm) of typical plant	8:40	TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED
MORPHOLOGY	Flowering	earliness to flowering	EARLY - Early 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
PRODUCTION	Establishment	establishment rating from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent)	3	TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED
PRODUCTION	Persistence	persistence rating from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent)	4	TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED
PRODUCTION	Seed Production	rating for seed production from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent)	6	TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED
PRODUCTION	Rate Of Spread	assessment how accessions spreads from 1 (negligible) to 8 (like bad weed)	2	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)	2	TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED
PRODUCTION	Adaptation To Clay	rating for adaptation to clay soils from 1 (very poor) to 8 (well adapted)	2	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)	2	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)	4	TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED