“…Basilisk has, on average, 10 to 11 live leaves per tiller, while cv. Xaraés has approximately 3 to 4 live leaves per tiller (Galzerano, Malheiros, Raposo, Morgado, & Ruggieri, 2013), and cvs Marandu, Paiaguás and Piatã possess, on average, 4 to 5 leaves per tiller (Casagrande et al, 2010;Orrico Júnior, Centurion, Sunada, & Vargas Júnior 2013;Germano, Vendruscolo, Daniel, & Dalbianco 2018). Leaf appearance rate (LAR, cm tiller -1 day -1 ), leaf elongation rate (LER, cm tiller -1 day -1 ), stem elongation rate (SER, cm tiller -1 day -1 ), leaf senescence rate (LSR, cm tiller -1 day -1 ), leaf lifespan (LLS, days), final leaf length (FLL, cm), number of live leaves (NLL), herbage mass (HM, kg ha -1 ), leaf mass (LM, kg ha -1 ), stem mass (SM, kg ha -1 ), dead material mass (DMM, kg ha -1 ), undesirable-plant mass (UPM, kg ha -1 ), leaf:stem ratio (L:S).…”