AusTraits

Acacia aptaneura

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia aptaneura Maslin & J.E.Reid

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia aneura var. pilbarana Pedley (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia aneura var. tenuis Pedley (taxonomic synonym)
  • Racosperma aneurum var. pilbaranum (Pedley) Pedley (taxonomic synonym)
  • Racosperma aneurum var. tenue (Pedley) Pedley (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia aneura var. conifera Randell (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (20), ANBG_2019 (1), Crowley_2007 (2), Dong_2017 (44), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (14), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (7), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 49 traits from 135 records in 18 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 (4) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 40 mm (20-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006; WAH_2023_2]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (2); orange (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 70 mm (40-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.15 mm (0.8-1.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 425.28 g/m2 (373.55-465.44 g/m2) [sources: Dong_2017]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); strap-shaped (1); terete (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1); not_glaucous (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): phyllode (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): bushy (1); decumbent (1); erect (1); spreading (1) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (3) [sources: Dong_2017; 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): 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]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 16.06 mg/g (7.8-21.36 mg/g) [sources: Dong_2017]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -27.76 {delta}[ppth] (-29.16--25.52 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Dong_2017]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 16.46 mg (16.46-16.46 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); ovoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Dong_2017844N. Dong, I. C. Prentice, B. J. Evans, S. Caddy-Retalic, A. J. Lowe, and I. J. Wright. “Leaf nitrogen from first principles: field evidence for adaptive variation with climate”. Biogeosciences 14.2 (2017), pp. 481-495. doi: 10.5194/bg-14-481-2017.
ABRS_20231320Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
White_20201919M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NTH_20231014D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_247Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
NTH_202244D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
RussellSmith_201244J. 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.
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.
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_223Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ANBG_201911Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
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.