Acacia calligera

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia calligera (Pedley) Pedley

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acacia wickhami var. viscidula F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia wickhamii subsp. parviphyllodinea Maslin (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia wickhamii subsp. parviphyllodinea Tindale, Kodela & D.Keith (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia wickhamii subsp. parviphyllodineum Pedley (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia wickhamii subsp. viscidula (F.Muell.) Tindale, Kodela & D.Keith (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia wickhamii subsp. viscidula Tindale, Kodela & D.Keith (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia wickhamii subsp. viscidulum Pedley (taxonomic synonym)
Racosperma calligerum Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (12), ABRS_2023 (49), Munroe_2019 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2021 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 83 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]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 39.67 mm (2-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 5.92 mm (3.5-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 11.83 mm (5-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 5.58 mm (3-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (3); narrowly_ovate (2); oblong (2); orbicular (2); ovate (3); widely_elliptical (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (2); undulate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (3); not_glaucous (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): phyllode (3) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): bushy (1); decumbent (1); erect (1); spreading (3) [sources: ABRS_2022]
flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyyyynnyn (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 3.25 mm (3-3.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.02 m (0.25-2.5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	13	49	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	12	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RussellSmith_2012	4	8	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.
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.
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/.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.