Acacia celsa

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia celsa Tindale

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acacia aulacocarpa North Qld group (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
Acacia aulacocarpa subsp. C (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia sp. (NEQ BH 1344RFK) (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia sp. (NEQ) (taxonomic synonym)
Racosperma celsum (Tindale) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), Cooper_2013 (13), Falster_2005_1 (10), Gray_2019 (44), Gross_2005 (4), Kooyman_2011 (13), Maslin_2012 (17), Metcalfe_2009 (19), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Williams_2012 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 53 traits from 149 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (1); resprouts (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Williams_2012]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Williams_2012]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): monoecious (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 47.5 mm (20-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 16.25 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Metcalfe_2009; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Metcalfe_2009; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 3020.5 mm2 (2786-3255 mm2) [sources: Falster_2005_1; Metcalfe_2009]
leaf_length (numerical): 102.5 mm (50-155 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]
leaf_width (numerical): 20.83 mm (10-35 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 129.59 g/m2 (102.88-145 g/m2) [sources: Falster_2005_1; Gray_2019]
leaf_shape (categorical): falcate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1); phyllode (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012; Metcalfe_2009; Wenk_2022]
life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; Metcalfe_2009; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): bee (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnnnnn (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Maslin_2012]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): short_persistent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 24.5 mg/g (21.4-27.6 mg/g) [sources: Falster_2005_1; Gray_2019]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.36 mg/g (1.36-1.36 mg/g) [sources: Gray_2019]

physiology

leaf_photosynthetic_rate_per_dry_mass_maximum (numerical): 0.11 umol{CO2}/g/s (0.1-0.13 umol{CO2}/g/s) [sources: Gray_2019]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 11.65 mg (10.3-13 mg) [sources: Falster_2005_1; Metcalfe_2009]
seed_length (numerical): 5.12 mm (3-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]
seed_width (numerical): 3 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); ovoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.58 mg/mm3 (0.5-0.65 mg/mm3) [sources: Falster_2005_1; Metcalfe_2009]
huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Falster_2005_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 22.67 m (8-30 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Maslin_2012]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Gray_2019	12	44	E. F. Gray, I. J. Wright, D. S. Falster, A. S. D. Eller, C. E. R. Lehmann, M. G. Bradford, and L. A. Cernusak. “Leaf:wood allometry and functional traits together explain substantial growth rate variation in rainforest trees”. AoB PLANTS 11.3 (2019), pp. 1-11. doi: 10.1093/aobpla/plz024.
Metcalfe_2009	19	19	E. Laliberte, J. A. Wells, F. DeClerck, D. J. Metcalfe, C. P. Catterall, C. Queiroz, I. Aubin, S. P. Bonser, Y. Ding, J. M. Fraterrigo, S. McNamara, J. W. Morgan, D. S. Merlos, P. A. Vesk, and M. M. Mayfield. “Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities”. Ecology Letters 13.1 (2010), pp. 76-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01403.x.
ABRS_2023	11	17	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Maslin_2012	13	17	B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	9	13	R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Falster_2005_1	7	10	D. S. Falster and M. Westoby. “Alternative height strategies among 45 dicot rain forest species from tropical Queensland, Australia”. Journal of Ecology 93 (2005), pp. 521-535. doi: 10.1111/j.0022-0477.2005.00992.x.
Gross_2005	4	4	C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
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.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Williams_2012	2	2	P. R. Williams, M. Parsons, R. Jensen, and C. Tran. “Mechanisms of rainforest persistence and recruitment in frequently burnt wet tropical eucalypt forests”. Austral Ecology 37.2 (2012), pp. 268-275. ISSN: 1442-9993. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2011.02271.x.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.