Data sources

Each value Trefle shows for Urochloa trichopus, with what every source says about it. When sources disagree, the strongest source is shown (how sources are ranked). Values imported before sources were recorded one by one are marked Source not recorded.

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Sourced6 Differs from sources1 Source not recorded8 Not on the record2 Sources: TRY Plant Trait Database, Earlier Trefle data, POWO / WCVP (Kew)

Field	Shown	What the sources say
Core
Author	(Hochst.) Stapf	(Hochst.) Stapf · POWO / WCVP (Kew) · Reported · 2026-10-11	Sourced
Bibliography	D. Prain, Fl. trop. Afr. 9:589. 1920	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Phylum	Tracheophyta	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Rank	species	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Status	accepted	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Year	1920	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Descriptive
Common name	Herringbone grass	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Observations	Trop. & S. Africa, Arabian Pen., Madagascar	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Morphology
Average height	33 cm	32.77 cm · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 6 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 331, 882	Differs from sources
Biological type	empty	hemicryptophyte · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 882	Not on the record
Fruit shape	caryopsis	caryopsis · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 5 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 882	Sourced
Growth habit	Graminoid	Graminoid · Earlier Trefle data · Reported · 2026-10-19 value present before provenance tracking (2022 import), no source recorded	Sourced
Maximum height	120 cm	120 cm · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 3 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 331, 882	Sourced
Vegetable	false	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Phenology
Duration	perennial	perennial · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 5 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 460, 882	Sourced
Ecology
Nitrogen fixation	None	None · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 69 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 130, 444, 445	Sourced
Usda legacy
C n ratio	empty	16.4 · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 331	Not on the record

Urochloa trichopus (Hochst.) Stapf, 1920 20% complete

Herringbone grass

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