COMMENT | Notes | notes on diseases, pests, asset or weaknesses of accession | vigorous, leafy | APG QLD Regen 2021-22 Macroptilium | | |
GROWTH | Growth habit | Dominant growth habit | M - Mixed population | APG QLD Regen 2021-22 Macroptilium | | |
GROWTH | Twining capacity | Dominant twining capacity | T2 - Dominant vertical inter-branch twining (tight) | APG QLD Regen 2021-22 Macroptilium | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Perenniality | plant perenniality | STRONGLY PERENNIAL - Strongly Perennial | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Plant Dimensions | height (cm) and diameter (cm) of typical plant | 15:30 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Flowering | earliness to flowering | EARLY - Early Flowering | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Peak Flowering | months when peak flowering occurred | Jan-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 | TRAILING - Trailing | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Leaf hairs | Leaf surface hairiness 4-6 nodes from branch tip (at 1st flower) | 1 - Glabrous (none) | APG QLD Regen 2021-22 Macroptilium | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Stem hairs | Stem surface hairiness 4-6 nodes from branch tip (at 1st flower) | 3 - Sparse hairs | APG QLD Regen 2021-22 Macroptilium | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Pod hairs | Pod surface hairiness 4-6 nodes from branch tip (at 1st flower) | 2 - Pubescent (fine/soft hairs) | APG QLD Regen 2021-22 Macroptilium | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Stem colour - dominant | Dominant stem colour 4-6 nodes from branch tip (at 1st flower) | Mid. Green | APG QLD Regen 2021-22 Macroptilium | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Stem colour - secondary | Secondary stem colour 4-6 nodes from branch tip (at 1st flower) | Burgundy | APG QLD Regen 2021-22 Macroptilium | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Leaf colour (dominant) | Dominant leaf colour 4-6 nodes from branch tip (at 1st flower) | Mid. Green | APG QLD Regen 2021-22 Macroptilium | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Mature seed colour pattern | Dominant flower colour pattern 4-6 nodes from branch tip (10-20 days after 1st flower) | 2 - Speckled (spotted) | APG QLD Regen 2021-22 Macroptilium | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Mature seed colour - dominant | Dominant seed colour 4-6 nodes from branch tip (10-20 days after 1st flower) | Brown | APG QLD Regen 2021-22 Macroptilium | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Mature seed colour - secondary | Secondary seed colour 4-6 nodes from branch tip (10-20 days after 1st flower) | Black | APG QLD Regen 2021-22 Macroptilium | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Dominant leaf shape | Dominant leaf shape of fully expanded leaves (at 1st flower) | O3 - Ovate (deep lobes) | APG QLD Regen 2021-22 Macroptilium | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Pod Colour, dominant | Dominant immature pod colour 4-6 nodes from branch tip (at first flower) | Brown | APG QLD Regen 2021-22 Macroptilium | | |
MORPHOLOGY | Inflorescence colour, dominant | dominant inflorescence colour 4-6 nodes from branch tip (10-20 days after first flower) Colour code using Royal Horticultural Society charts | Burgundy | APG QLD Regen 2021-22 Macroptilium | | |
PHENOLOGY | Minimum canopy height | Minimum canopy (foliage) height (cm) (without support) (30-50 days after 1st flower) | 50 | APG QLD Regen 2021-22 Macroptilium | | |
PHENOLOGY | Maximum canopy height | Maximum canopy (foliage) height (cm) (without support) (30-50 days after 1st flower) | 65 | APG QLD Regen 2021-22 Macroptilium | | |
PHENOLOGY | Minimum flower height | Minimum flower (foliage) height (cm) (without support) (30-50 days after 1st flower) | 40 | APG QLD Regen 2021-22 Macroptilium | | |
PHENOLOGY | Maximum flower height | Maximum flower (foliage) height (cm) (without support) (30-50 days after 1st flower) | 70 | APG QLD Regen 2021-22 Macroptilium | | |
PHENOLOGY | Leafiness rating, PGroup Comp | Estimate of leaf vs non-leaf material compared to comparator for pasture group (30-50 days after 1st flower) | 3 - More leafy than comparator for pasture group | APG QLD Regen 2021-22 Macroptilium | | |
PHENOLOGY | Seed production (subsidiary) | Estimate of seed production relative to the subsidiary comparator (where present) | 1 - Less than comparator | APG QLD Regen 2021-22 Macroptilium | | |
PRODUCTION | Establishment | establishment rating from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent) | 4 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
PRODUCTION | Establishment Variation | variation in establishment ratings at different locations from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent) | 1-Jun | 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) | 3 | 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 | Palatability Dry | rating of palatability of plants when hayed off or dormant from 1 (very low) to 8 (very palatable) | 6 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
PRODUCTION | Flowering and seed set | Estimate of seed production capacity | 5 - Dense flowering, ready seed set (few empty florets) | APG QLD Regen 2021-22 Macroptilium | | |
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 | | |