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Acacia cangaiensis

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia cangaiensis Tindale & Kodela

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Racosperma cangaiense (Tindale & Kodela) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (19), ANBG_2019 (6), Chen_2017 (5), Kew_2019_1 (1), Maslin_2012 (13), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (17), Pickup_2021 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 31 traits from 82 records in 13 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 80 mm (20-140 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 10.5 mm (8-13 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023; 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): black (1); brown (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 24.33 mm (5-82 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.58 mm (1-2.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 2.55 cm (0.7-4 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2); narrowly_oblong (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5); tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2022; Pickup_2021; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnnnn (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2014_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 20.36 mg (18.39-22.34 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 5.54 mm (5.54-5.54 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.17 mm (3.17-3.17 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); ovoid (1) [sources: ANBG_2019; Maslin_2012]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 4 m (2-6 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231119Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2023917N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Maslin_20121013B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
ANBG_201966Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
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.
NHNSW_2014_255Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.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.
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.
NHNSW_202233N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Pickup_202133M. Pickup and T. McDonald. Bushfire impacts — A national model for assessing local landscape restoration priorities. Project Phoenix Report. Greening Australia, 2021. url: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1.02R2.pdf.
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.