Acacia cuthbertsonii subsp. cuthbertsonii

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia cuthbertsonii Luehm. subsp. cuthbertsonii

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Racosperma cuthbertsonii (Luehm.) Pedley subsp. cuthbertsonii (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2023 (12), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Schulze_2014 (13), Stephens_2021 (1), 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 31 traits from 46 records in 12 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 (2); partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (1) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): legume (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_colour (categorical): yellow (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 57.5 mm (30-85 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 6.5 mm (3-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 376.66 g/m2 (344.11-409.2 g/m2) [sources: Schulze_2014]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear_elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): phyllode (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): bushy (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Schulze_2014]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Schulze_2014]
flowering_time (categorical): ynnynyyyyyyn (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 17.93 mg/g (16.71-19.15 mg/g) [sources: Schulze_2014]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -26.78 {delta}[ppth] (-27.83--25.73 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schulze_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 96.56 mg (96.56-96.56 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 7.5 mm (7.5-7.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2.5 m (1-4 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Schulze_2014	8	13	E. D. Schulze, D. Nicolle, A. Boerner, M. Lauerer, G. Aas, and I. Schulze. “Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of Eucalyptus and Acacia species along a seasonal rainfall gradient in Western Australia”. Trees 28.4 (2014), pp. 1125-1135. doi: 10.1007/s00468-014-1023-0.
ABRS_2023	10	12	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. 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.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Kew_2019_6	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Nano_2011	2	2	C. 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.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Stephens_2021	1	1	R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.