| GROWTH | Growth habit | Dominant growth habit | E - Erect (vertical dominant growth)(self-supporting) | APG QLD Regen 2016-17 Desmanthus | | |
| MORPHOLOGY | Perenniality | plant perenniality | WEAKLY PERENNIAL - Weakly Perennial | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
| MORPHOLOGY | Plant Dimensions | height (cm) and diameter (cm) of typical plant | 30:40:00 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
| MORPHOLOGY | Flowering | earliness to flowering | STERILE - Sterile, Never Flowered | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
| MORPHOLOGY | Leaf hairs | Leaf surface hairiness 4-6 nodes from branch tip (at 1st flower) | 1 - Glabrous (none) | APG QLD Regen 2016-17 Desmanthus | | |
| MORPHOLOGY | Stem hairs | Stem surface hairiness 4-6 nodes from branch tip (at 1st flower) | 1 - Glabrous (none) | APG QLD Regen 2016-17 Desmanthus | | |
| MORPHOLOGY | Pod hairs | Pod surface hairiness 4-6 nodes from branch tip (at 1st flower) | 1 - Glabrous (none) | APG QLD Regen 2016-17 Desmanthus | | |
| MORPHOLOGY | Stem colour - dominant | Dominant stem colour 4-6 nodes from branch tip (at 1st flower) | mid green | APG QLD Regen 2016-17 Desmanthus | | |
| MORPHOLOGY | Stem colour - secondary | Secondary stem colour 4-6 nodes from branch tip (at 1st flower) | fawn | APG QLD Regen 2016-17 Desmanthus | | |
| MORPHOLOGY | Leaf colour (dominant) | Dominant leaf colour 4-6 nodes from branch tip (at 1st flower) | dark green | APG QLD Regen 2016-17 Desmanthus | | |
| MORPHOLOGY | Flower colour - dominant | Dominant flower colour 4-6 nodes from branch tip (10-20 days after 1st flower) | white | APG QLD Regen 2016-17 Desmanthus | | |
| MORPHOLOGY | Flower colour - secondary | Secondary flower colour 4-6 nodes from branch tip (10-20 days after 1st flower) | pale yellow | APG QLD Regen 2016-17 Desmanthus | | |
| MORPHOLOGY | Mature seed colour pattern | Dominant flower colour pattern 4-6 nodes from branch tip (10-20 days after 1st flower) | 10 - Combination of seed coast patterns | APG QLD Regen 2016-17 Desmanthus | | |
| MORPHOLOGY | Mature seed colour - dominant | Dominant seed colour 4-6 nodes from branch tip (10-20 days after 1st flower) | grey-brown | APG QLD Regen 2016-17 Desmanthus | | |
| MORPHOLOGY | Mature seed colour - secondary | Secondary seed colour 4-6 nodes from branch tip (10-20 days after 1st flower) | brown | APG QLD Regen 2016-17 Desmanthus | | |
| MORPHOLOGY | 1000 Seed Weight | Weight of 1000 seeds in grams | 7.69231 | APG QLD Regen 2016-17 Desmanthus | | |
| OTHER | wet down date | Date seeds were first wetted for germination (in laboratory) | 19/12/2016 12:00:00 AM | APG QLD Regen 2016-17 Desmanthus | | |
| PHENOLOGY | Days to First Flower | Days from wetting up to start of flowering phase | 59 | APG QLD Regen 2016-17 Desmanthus | | |
| PHENOLOGY | Minimum canopy height | Minimum canopy (foliage) height (cm) (without support) (30-50 days after 1st flower) | 20 | APG QLD Regen 2016-17 Desmanthus | | |
| PHENOLOGY | Maximum canopy height | Maximum canopy (foliage) height (cm) (without support) (30-50 days after 1st flower) | 90 | APG QLD Regen 2016-17 Desmanthus | | |
| PHENOLOGY | Minimum flower height | Minimum flower (foliage) height (cm) (without support) (30-50 days after 1st flower) | 20 | APG QLD Regen 2016-17 Desmanthus | | |
| PHENOLOGY | Maximum flower height | Maximum flower (foliage) height (cm) (without support) (30-50 days after 1st flower) | 90 | APG QLD Regen 2016-17 Desmanthus | | |
| PHENOLOGY | Crown height | Height of the first branch relative to the ground surface (at first flower) | 2 - 0-4 cm above surface | APG QLD Regen 2016-17 Desmanthus | | |
| PHENOLOGY | Pod dehiscence | Dominant mode of pod dehiscence (shatter) (30-50 days after 1st flower) | 3 - Dehisces along two septa | APG QLD Regen 2016-17 Desmanthus | | |
| PRODUCTION | Establishment | establishment rating from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent) | 2 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
| PRODUCTION | Persistence | persistence rating from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent) | 2 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
| PRODUCTION | Seed Production | rating for seed production from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent) | 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 | Adaptation To Clay | rating for adaptation to clay soils from 1 (very poor) to 8 (well adapted) | 4 | 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 | | |
| PRODUCTION | Flowering and seed set | Estimate of seed production capacity | 3 - Sparse flowering, ready seed set (few empty florets) | APG QLD Regen 2016-17 Desmanthus | | |
| STRESS | Frost Tolerance | rating of plant frost tolerance from 1 (killed by light frost) to 8 (not killed by repeated serve radiation frosts) | 2 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |