AusTraits

Acacia cowleana

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia cowleana Tate

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia crowleana Domin (orthographic variant)
  • Acacia oligophleba Pedley (taxonomic synonym)
  • Racosperma cowleanum (Tate) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Racosperma oligophlebum (Pedley) Pedley (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (16), Chen_2017 (6), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (4), Kew_2019_2 (2), Kew_2019_4 (3), Kew_2019_6 (3), Maslin_2012 (14), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (13), NSWFRD_2014 (5), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (14), Nano_2011 (7), RussellSmith_2012 (4), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 41 traits from 142 records in 26 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 (6) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; NSWFRD_2014; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Nano_2011]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 80 mm (40-120 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 3.81 mm (2-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_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_length (numerical): 148 mm (70-220 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 22.9 mm (10-36 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); falcate (4); narrowly_elliptical (1); oblanceolate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1); simple (1) [sources: Maslin_2012; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (2); not_glaucous (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1); phyllode (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (8); tree (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); spindly (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyynnnn (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Maslin_2012]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (3) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 11.29 mg (8.7-14.02 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 4.58 mm (3.5-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; SAH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 5.38 m (1-8 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231116Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_20231115S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Maslin_20121214B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
NTH_20231014D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2023813N. 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/.
Nano_201167C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Chen_201766Chen, 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.
NSWFRD_201455B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
ABRS_202244Australian 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_114Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
RussellSmith_201244J. 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_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.
Sweedman_200624L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Clarke_201533P. 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_413Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Oil content data from Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_613Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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/.
NTH_202233D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
SAH_202233S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Kew_2019_212Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Munroe_201911S. 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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.