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Acacia acuminata

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia acuminata Benth.

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia acuminata (narrow phyllode variant) Maslin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia acuminata Benth. subsp. acuminata (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Acacia acuminata Benth. var. acuminata (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Acacia acuminata var. ciliata Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia sp. Narrow phyllode (B.R.Maslin 7831) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
  • Racosperma acuminatum (Benth.) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (23), ANBG_2019 (6), Andrew_2022 (9), Barrett_2009 (14), Burrows_2008_2 (5), Burrows_2020 (5), Chen_2017 (5), Clarke_2015 (2), Collette_2021 (1), Draper_2023 (3), Gallagher_2011_1 (1), Gallagher_2011_3 (1), Gosper_2018 (6), Ilic_2000 (2), Kew_2019_1 (4), Kew_2019_4 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), Manea_2011 (1), Maslin_2012 (17), Munroe_2019 (1), Pate_1998 (8), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (18), Read_2005 (36), Schulze_2014 (8), Shedley_2007 (89), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Standish_2019 (7), Staples_2019 (75), Sweedman_2006 (4), Tsakalos_2020 (19), WAH_2022_2 (7), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 73 traits from 400 records in 37 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response
  • resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (6); partial_resprouting (14); resprouts (3) [sources: Barrett_2009; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Clarke_2015; Gosper_2018; Shedley_2007; Standish_2019; Tsakalos_2020]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (18) [sources: Barrett_2009; Clarke_2015; Shedley_2007]
  • fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 60 mo (60-60 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 55 mm (30-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 4.75 mm (2.5-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Tsakalos_2020]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 666.21 mm2 (357.04-1646.05 mm2) [sources: Andrew_2022; Read_2005; Staples_2019]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 115 mm (80-150 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 5 mm (2-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 195.37 mg (103.2-387.9 mg) [sources: Staples_2019]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 243.95 g/m2 (124.84-358.13 g/m2) [sources: Gallagher_2011_3; Read_2005; Schulze_2014; Staples_2019]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2); narrowly_elliptical (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Andrew_2022; Maslin_2012; Tsakalos_2020]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; Tsakalos_2020]
  • leaf_glaucousness (categorical): not_glaucous (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1); hairy (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1); phyllode (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Andrew_2022; Maslin_2012; RBGV_2023; Read_2005; Tsakalos_2020]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: Munroe_2019; Pate_1998; Tsakalos_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (23); tree (9) [sources: ABRS_2022; Barrett_2009; Gosper_2018; Maslin_2012; Pate_1998; RBGV_2022; Shedley_2007; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Gosper_2018]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (12) [sources: ABRS_2022; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Gosper_2018; Maslin_2012; Pate_1998; RBGV_2022; Standish_2019; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (3) [sources: RBGV_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Maslin_2012; Schulze_2014]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (4) [sources: Pate_1998; Schulze_2014; Standish_2019; Tsakalos_2020]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (2) [sources: Standish_2019; Tsakalos_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • reproductive_maturity (numerical): 5 a (5-5 a) [sources: Burrows_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): ballistic (1); myrmecochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersers (categorical): ants (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyynn (1); nnnnyyyyyynn (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Tsakalos_2020]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1); soil_seedbank (21) [sources: Barrett_2009; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Gosper_2018; Shedley_2007; Standish_2019]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Gosper_2018]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (14); none (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Shedley_2007]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 25.2 mg/g (24.3-27.7 mg/g) [sources: Read_2005; Schulze_2014]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.7 mg/g (0.64-0.82 mg/g) [sources: Read_2005]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -26.24 {delta}[ppth] (-26.76--25.88 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Pate_1998; Schulze_2014]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 10.83 mg (5.92-18.4 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Andrew_2022; Kew_2019_1; Standish_2019]
  • seed_length (numerical): 3.83 mm (2-4.5 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; RBGV_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2.25 mm (1.5-3 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (3); ovoid (3); ovoid_elongated (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; ANBG_2019; Maslin_2012; RBGV_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.95 mg/mm3 (0.9-1.01 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Shedley_2007689E. F. Shedley. Fire and Biodiversity Guidelines for the Avon Basin: Consultant Report to the Avon Catchment Council and the Department of Environment and Conservation, August 2007. Tech. rep. Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia, 2007.
Staples_2019375T. Staples, J. M. Dwyer, J. R. England, and M. M. Mayfield. “Productivity does not correlate with species and functional diversity in Australian reforestation plantings across a wide climate gradient”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28.10 (2019), pp. 1417-1429. doi: 10.1111/geb.12962.
Read_2005836J. Read, G. D. Sanson, and B. B. Lamont. “Leaf mechanical properties in sclerophyll woodland and shrubland on contrasting soils”. Plant and Soil 276 (2005), pp. 95-113. doi: 10.1007/s11104-005-3343-8.
ABRS_20231523Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Tsakalos_20201819J. L. Tsakalos, M. Renton, F. Riviera, E. J. Veneklaas, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Trait-based formal definition of plant functional types and functional communities in the multi-species and multi-traits context”. Ecological Complexity 40 (2019), p. 100787. doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2019.100787.
RBGV_20231218VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Maslin_20121217B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
Barrett_2009614S. Barrett, S. Comer, N. McQuoid, M. Porter, C. Tiller, and D. Utber. Identification and Conservation of Fire Sensitive Ecosystems and Species of the South Coast Natural Resource Management Region.. government. Department of Conservation and Land Management, South Coast Region, Western Australia, 2009.
Andrew_202279S. C. Andrew, P. A. Arnold, A. K. Simonsen, and V. F. Briceño. “Consistently high heat tolerance acclimation in response to a simulated heatwave across species from the broadly distributed”. Functional Plant Biology 50.1 (2022). Ed. by S. Allakhverdiev, pp. 71-83. ISSN: 1445-4416. doi: 10.1071/fp22173.
Pate_199868J. S. Pate, M. J. Unkovich, P. D. Erskine, and G. R. Stewart. “Australian mulga ecosystems- 13C and 15N natural abundances of biota components and their ecophysiological significance”. Plant, Cell and Environment 21.12 (1998), pp. 1231-1242. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-3040.1998.00359.x.
Schulze_201488E. D. Schulze, D. Nicolle, A. Boerner, M. Lauerer, G. Aas, and I. Schulze. “Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of Eucalyptus and Acacia species along a seasonal rainfall gradient in Western Australia”. Trees 28.4 (2014), pp. 1125-1135. doi: 10.1007/s00468-014-1023-0.
Standish_201977R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
WAH_2022_247Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ANBG_201966Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Gosper_201866C. R. Gosper, C. J. Yates, G. D. Cook, J. M. Harvey, A. C. Liedloff, W. L. McCaw, K. R. Thiele, and S. M. Prober. “A conceptual model of vegetation dynamics for the unique obligate-seeder eucalypt woodlands of south-western Australia”. Austral Ecology 43.6 (2018), pp. 681-695. doi: 10.1111/aec.12613.
Burrows_2008_255N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
Burrows_202055N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
Chen_201755Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
Kew_2019_114Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_200644A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
Sweedman_200624L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
WAH_2023_213Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wright_200033I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
Clarke_201522P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Ilic_200012J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
Kew_2019_612Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_202111J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
Gallagher_2011_111R. V. Gallagher, M. R. Leishman, J. T. Miller, C. Hui, D. M. Richardson, J. Suda, and P. Travnicek. “Invasiveness in introduced Australian acacias: The role of species traits and genome size”. Diversity and Distributions 17 (2011), pp. 884-897. doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00805.x.
Gallagher_2011_311R. V. Gallagher, M. R. Leishman, J. T. Miller, C. Hui, D. M. Richardson, J. Suda, and P. Travnicek. “Invasiveness in introduced Australian acacias: The role of species traits and genome size”. Diversity and Distributions 17 (2011), pp. 884-897. doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00805.x.
Kew_2019_411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Oil content data from Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Manea_201111A. Manea. “Unpublished data: Dispersal appendage data for Acacia via Worldwide Wattle, Macquarie University”. 2011.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.