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Acacia crassicarpa

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia crassicarpa A.Cunn. ex Benth.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia crassocarpa F.Muell. (orthographic variant)
  • Racosperma crassicarpum (A.Cunn. ex Benth.) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia aulacocarpa var. macrocarpa Benth. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), Andrew_2022 (9), Chen_2017 (5), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (13), Gallagher_2011_1 (1), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (4), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_6 (1), Kooyman_2011 (13), Maslin_2012 (14), Richards_2008 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Westoby_2014 (32), Williams_2012 (3), Wright_2000 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 63 traits from 136 records in 20 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
  • sex_type (categorical): monoecious (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 77.5 mm (30-120 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 32.5 mm (20-45 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 5790 mm2 (5790-5790 mm2) [sources: Andrew_2022; Westoby_2014]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 175 mm (80-270 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 30.33 mm (7-65 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 78.9 g/m2 (78.9-78.9 g/m2) [sources: Westoby_2014]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): falcate (1); lanceolate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Andrew_2022; Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1); phyllode (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Andrew_2022; Maslin_2012]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; 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: Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyynnnn (1); nnnyyyyyynnn (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2); epicormic_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Williams_2012]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 18.82 mg/g (17.2-20.43 mg/g) [sources: Richards_2008; Westoby_2014]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.56 mg/g (0.5-0.62 mg/g) [sources: Richards_2008; Westoby_2014]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -29.05 {delta}[ppth] (-29.05--29.05 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Westoby_2014]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 25.94 mg (24-27.95 mg) [sources: Andrew_2022; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 5.62 mm (4-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2.88 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); ovoid (1); ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.55 mg/mm3 (0.44-0.62 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Westoby_2014]
  • huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Westoby_2014]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 22.75 m (6-30 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Westoby_20143032S. M. Gleason, D. W. Butler, K. Zieminska, P. Waryszak, and M. Westoby. “Stem xylem conductivity is key to plant water balance across Australian angiosperm species”. Functional Ecology 26 (2012), pp. 343-352. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.01962.x.
ABRS_20231117Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Maslin_20121014B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011913R. 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.
Andrew_202279S. C. Andrew, P. A. Arnold, A. K. Simonsen, and V. F. Briceño. “Consistently high heat tolerance acclimation in response to a simulated heatwave across species from the broadly distributed”. Functional Plant Biology 50.1 (2022). Ed. by S. Allakhverdiev, pp. 71-83. ISSN: 1445-4416. doi: 10.1071/fp22173.
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.
Gross_200544C. 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.
Ilic_200014J. 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.
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.
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.
Williams_201233P. 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.
Wright_200033I. 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.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Richards_200822A. Richards and I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Transcription of Australian plant functional trait data from Ian Wright's collection of papers, Macquarie University”. 2009.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Gallagher_2011_111R. V. Gallagher, M. R. Leishman, J. T. Miller, C. Hui, D. M. Richardson, J. Suda, and P. Travnicek. “Invasiveness in introduced Australian acacias: The role of species traits and genome size”. Diversity and Distributions 17 (2011), pp. 884-897. doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00805.x.
Kew_2019_611Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the 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.