Acacia drummondii

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia drummondii Lindl.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acacia drummondi Beaton (orthographic variant)
Racosperma drummondii (Lindl.) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (24), Chen_2017 (4), Clarke_2015 (2), Collette_2021 (1), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_4 (1), Manea_2011 (1), Maslin_2012 (13), Pekin_2011 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Standish_2019 (9), Sweedman_2006 (8), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 34 traits from 84 records in 17 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); resprouts (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Pekin_2011; Standish_2019]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 32.5 mm (15-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 5.75 mm (3.5-8 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]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 8 mm (2-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
leaf_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (1-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.28 cm (0.05-0.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_oblong (1); oblong (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1); revolute (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; Pekin_2011; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Pekin_2011; Standish_2019]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (2) [sources: Pekin_2011; Standish_2019]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 15.4 mg/g (15.4-15.4 mg/g) [sources: Standish_2019]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.3 mg/g (0.3-0.3 mg/g) [sources: Standish_2019]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.56 mg (2.99-4.03 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Standish_2019]
seed_length (numerical): 3.12 mm (2-3.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (2); ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.95 m (0.2-2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	13	24	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	10	13	B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
Standish_2019	9	9	R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
Sweedman_2006	2	8	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
Chen_2017	4	4	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.
Pekin_2011	4	4	B. K. Pekin, R. S. Wittkuhn, M. M. Boer, C. Macfarlane, and P. F. Grierson. “Plant functional traits along environmental gradients in seasonally dry and fire-prone ecosystem”. Journal of Vegetation Science 22 (2011), pp. 1009-1020. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01323.x.
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.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Clarke_2015	2	2	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	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
Kew_2019_4	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Oil content data from Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Manea_2011	1	1	A. Manea. “Unpublished data: Dispersal appendage data for Acacia via Worldwide Wattle, Macquarie University”. 2011.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.