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Acacia chinchillensis

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia chinchillensis Tindale

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

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (21), ANBG_2019 (4), Chen_2017 (5), Everingham_2020 (356), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), Maslin_2012 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 36 traits from 411 records in 11 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): 70 mm (40-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (4-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; 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
  • leaflet_area (numerical): 7.31 mm2 (2.9-12.67 mm2) [sources: Everingham_2020]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 6.25 mm (2-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 0.75 mm (0.5-1 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.35 cm (0.1-0.6 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 19.19 g/m2 (5.37-36.9 g/m2) [sources: Everingham_2020]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_oblanceolate (1); oblanceolate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1); simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyynnn (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Maslin_2012]
  • seed_viability (numerical): 1 {count}/{count} (1-1 {count}/{count}) [sources: Everingham_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 16.15 mg (10.7-24.8 mg) [sources: Everingham_2020; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 6.17 mm (6.17-6.17 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2.79 mm (2.79-2.79 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.38 mg/mm3 (0.26-1.02 mg/mm3) [sources: Everingham_2020]
  • stem_mass_fraction (numerical): 0.79 g/g (0.55-0.97 g/g) [sources: Everingham_2020]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.15 m (0.3-2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Everingham_202010356S. E. Everingham, C. A. Offord, M. E. B. Sabot, and A. T. Moles. “Time travelling seeds reveal that plant regeneration and growth traits are responding to climate change”. Ecology 102 (2020), p. e03272. doi: 10.1002/ecy.3272.
ABRS_20231321Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Maslin_2012912B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
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.
ANBG_201944Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
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.
Kew_2019_612Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.