Acacia caesaneura

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia caesaneura Maslin & J.E.Reid

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acacia aneura var. argentea Pedley (taxonomic synonym)
Racosperma aneurum var. argenteum (Pedley) Pedley (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (19), Collette_2021 (1), Draper_2023 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), Schulze_2014 (21), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2021 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 33 traits from 61 records in 12 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): 25 mm (15-35 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); grey (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 50 mm (30-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 6.25 mm (2.5-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 550.87 g/m2 (521.87-571.86 g/m2) [sources: Schulze_2014]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_oblong (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): phyllode (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
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]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): dense (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Schulze_2014]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Schulze_2014]
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): nnynnnyynyyn (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 16.93 mg/g (16.57-17.26 mg/g) [sources: Schulze_2014]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -26.36 {delta}[ppth] (-26.96--25.6 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schulze_2014]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 6.25 m (3-8 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Schulze_2014	8	21	E. 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.
ABRS_2023	12	19	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. 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_2023	3	3	J. 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_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.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. 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.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. 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.
Stephens_2021	1	1	R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
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.