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Acacia anceps

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia anceps DC.

Synonyms: 9 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia anceps DC. var. anceps (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Acacia anceps var. angustifolia Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia celsiana Ser. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia glauca Ser. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia glaucescens F.Cels (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia megaphylla Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia muelleri Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia pterigoidea Seem. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Racosperma anceps (DC.) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia retinodes Schltdl. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (16), ANBG_2019 (6), Chen_2017 (4), Collette_2021 (1), Draper_2023 (3), Everingham_2020 (694), Gallagher_2011_1 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Maslin_2012 (12), Munroe_2019 (1), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2021 (2), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (9). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 53 traits from 786 records in 20 datasets.

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

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 50 mm (30-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 11.75 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 1070.52 mm2 (298.3-1850.2 mm2) [sources: Everingham_2020]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 41.67 mm (10-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 20.5 mm (8-35 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 73.08 mg (25.77-134.37 mg) [sources: Everingham_2020]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 72.37 g/m2 (56.5-117.48 g/m2) [sources: Everingham_2020]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); linear (1); oblanceolate (1); oblong (1); obovate (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): undulate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (2); not_glaucous (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1); phyllode (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): bushy (2); erect (1); spreading (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); endozoochory (1); myrmecochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersers (categorical): ants (1); passive (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnyyy (1); yynnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • seed_viability (numerical): 1 {count}/{count} (0.99-1 {count}/{count}) [sources: Everingham_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 20.81 mg (10.3-36.2 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Everingham_2020; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 5.38 mm (3.34-6.22 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Everingham_2020; ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2.52 mm (2.08-3.42 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Everingham_2020]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (2); ovoid (1); ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; ANBG_2019; Maslin_2012]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.29 mg/mm3 (0.19-0.39 mg/mm3) [sources: Everingham_2020]
  • stem_mass_fraction (numerical): 0.82 g/g (0.7-0.96 g/g) [sources: Everingham_2020]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2.5 m (1-3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Everingham_202016694S. E. Everingham, C. A. Offord, M. E. B. Sabot, and A. T. Moles. “Time travelling seeds reveal that plant regeneration and growth traits are responding to climate change”. Ecology 102 (2020), p. e03272. doi: 10.1002/ecy.3272.
ABRS_20231216Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_20231015S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Maslin_20121012B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
Wright_200099I. 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.
ANBG_201966Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Chen_201744Chen, 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.
SAH_202244S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.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.
Stephens_202112R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.