Acacia aneura var. major

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia aneura var. major Pedley

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acacia aneura var. (Cunnamulla L.Pedley 2420) (taxonomic synonym)
Racosperma aneurum var. majus (Pedley) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, SA, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), ANBG_2019 (5), Richards_2008 (4), RussellSmith_2012 (4), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 38 traits from 59 records in 10 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 (2) [sources: RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 50 mm (50-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 12 mm (7-17 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 42.5 mm (20-65 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (3-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 309.6 g/m2 (309.6-309.6 g/m2) [sources: Richards_2008]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): clustered (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): phyllode (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Richards_2008; White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 17.5 mg/g (17.5-17.5 mg/g) [sources: Richards_2008]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 8.71 mg (8.71-8.71 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_length (numerical): 4.24 mm (3-4.73 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; ABRS_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 3.05 mm (2.5-3.5 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; ABRS_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1); ovoid_elongated (1); ovoid_flattened (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; ANBG_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 14 m (14-14 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_2023	12	17	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ANBG_2019	5	5	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Richards_2008	4	4	A. Richards and I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Transcription of Australian plant functional trait data from Ian Wright's collection of papers, Macquarie University”. 2009.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.