| MORPHOLOGY | Perenniality | plant perenniality | ANNUAL - Annual | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
| MORPHOLOGY | Plant Dimensions | height (cm) and diameter (cm) of typical plant | 15:15 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
| MORPHOLOGY | Flowering | earliness to flowering | STERILE - Sterile, Never Flowered | 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 | | |
| PRODUCTION | Establishment | establishment rating from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent) | 5 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
| PRODUCTION | Establishment Variation | variation in establishment ratings at different locations from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent) | 1-Aug | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
| PRODUCTION | Persistence | persistence rating 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) | 3 | 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) | 1 | 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) | 3 | 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) | 2 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
| PRODUCTION | Adaptation To Sand | rating for adaptation to sandy soil from 1 (very poor) to 8 (well adapted) | 3 | 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) | 3 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |
| STRESS | Drought Tolerance | rating of drought tolerance from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent) | 1 | 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) | 2 | TROPICAL.COLLECTOR.REPORTED | | |