Acacia concurrens

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia concurrens Pedley

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acacia cunninghamii Hook. (nomenclatural synonym)
Racosperma concurrens (Pedley) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (14), Chen_2017 (5), Clarke_2015 (3), Everingham_2020 (681), Ilic_2000 (1), Kew_2019_1 (3), Maslin_2012 (13), McCarthy_2017 (10), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stewart_1995 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Westman_1977 (22), Wright_2000 (6). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 61 traits from 796 records in 18 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): resprouts (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

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): 83.75 mm (50-125 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 3 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: 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]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 1677.49 mm2 (156.6-3795.86 mm2) [sources: Everingham_2020; McCarthy_2017]
leaf_length (numerical): 129.17 mm (80-170 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 28.67 mm (12-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 77.43 mg (7.67-137.3 mg) [sources: Everingham_2020]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 97.5 g/m2 (35.09-197.24 g/m2) [sources: Everingham_2020; McCarthy_2017]
leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: Stewart_1995]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); falcate (1); narrowly_elliptical (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1); phyllode (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Stewart_1995]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2022; Stewart_1995; 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]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); spreading (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Maslin_2012; Stewart_1995]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Stewart_1995]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyynnn (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2014_2]
seed_viability (numerical): 0.92 {count}/{count} (0.88-0.95 {count}/{count}) [sources: Everingham_2020]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 22 mg/g (21-23 mg/g) [sources: Westman_1977]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.6 mg/g (0.4-0.8 mg/g) [sources: Westman_1977]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -28.1 {delta}[ppth] (-28.1--28.1 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Stewart_1995]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 8.9 mg (2.2-16.7 mg) [sources: Everingham_2020; Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 4.21 mm (3.09-5.06 mm) [sources: Everingham_2020; ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
seed_width (numerical): 1.85 mm (1.42-2.35 mm) [sources: Everingham_2020]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.42 mg/mm3 (0.18-0.76 mg/mm3) [sources: Everingham_2020; Ilic_2000]
stem_mass_fraction (numerical): 0.78 g/g (0.67-0.9 g/g) [sources: Everingham_2020]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 8.83 m (3-10 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Everingham_2020	13	681	S. 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.
Westman_1977	11	22	W. Westman and R. V. Roggers. “Nutrient stocks in a subtropical eucalypt forest, North Stradbroke Island”. Austral Ecology 2.4 (1977), pp. 447-460. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1977.tb01160.x.
ABRS_2023	10	14	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	11	13	B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
NHNSW_2023	8	13	N. 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/.
McCarthy_2017	2	10	J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
Stewart_1995	6	6	G. Stewart, M. Turnbull, S. Schmidt, and P. Erskine. “13C natural abundance in plant communities along a rainfall gradient: a biological integrator of water availability”. Functional Plant Biology 22.1 (1995), pp. 51-55. doi: 10.1071/pp9950051.
Wright_2000	6	6	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
Chen_2017	5	5	Chen, 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_2	5	5	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	N. 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/.
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.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Kew_2019_1	1	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Ilic_2000	1	1	J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.