AusTraits

Acacia aprepta

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia aprepta Pedley

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Racosperma apreptum (Pedley) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (17), Chen_2017 (5), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), Maslin_2012 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 43 traits from 72 records in 11 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 42.5 mm (25-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 60 mm (35-85 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (3-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): falcate (1); linear (1); narrowly_oblanceolate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1); phyllode (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (1); biennial (1); perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): spreading (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); endozoochory (1); myrmecochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): ants (1); invertebrates (1); passive (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnyyy (2); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Maslin_2012; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 5.88 mg (5.88-5.88 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 3.2 mm (2.3-3.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20202020M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_20231217Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Maslin_20121113B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.