
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Andrew, MH 
T1  - Survivorship of the Grass Enneapogon purpurascens in Victoria River District, North-West Australia.
JF  - The Rangeland Journal
JO  - Rangel. J.
Y1  - 1986
VL  - 8
IS  - 1
SP  - 63
EP  - 66
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/RJ9860063 
N2  - The survival and growth of four cohorts of Enneapogon purpurascens were recorded at one site over a 3.5 year period. The plants were virtually ungrazed by cattle. Only 11% of plants survived to the second or later rainy seasons. Of all plants tagged, 72% failed to flower. Eighty-four per cent of reproductive plants flowered once only; 90% of these behaved as annuals and only one individual had a strictly biennial life-history. The five per cent of plants which flowered in more than two seasons became relatively large. E. purpurascens appears to respond to local conditions as a facultative perennial. 
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