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Acacia excelsa

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia excelsa Benth.

Synonyms: 9 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia daintreeana F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia excelsa var. daintreana Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia excelsa var. daintreeaa Pedley (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia excelsa var. daintreeana (F.Muell.) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia excelsa var. glaucescens Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia excelsa var. polyphleba Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia excelsa var. typica Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia pterocarpa Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Racosperma excelsum (Benth.) 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 (15), Chen_2017 (4), Clarke_2015 (3), Ilic_2000 (2), Kew_2019_1 (3), Kew_2019_4 (1), Leishman_1992 (7), Maslin_2012 (12), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (13), Schmidt_2010 (64), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Soliveres_2012 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (18), Wright_2000 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 69 traits from 169 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 92.5 mm (40-110 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 8.25 mm (6-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; 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): 167 mm2 (167-167 mm2) [sources: Leishman_1992]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 50 mm (20-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 10.5 mm (3-22 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (2); narrowly_oblong (1) [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_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 (3) [sources: Munroe_2019; Schmidt_2010; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Leishman_1992; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2022; Schmidt_2010; Soliveres_2012; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Leishman_1992; 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; Schmidt_2010]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Schmidt_2010; White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): myrmecochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Soliveres_2012; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): ants (1); invertebrates (1) [sources: Soliveres_2012; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyyyyyn (1); nnyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • storage_organ (categorical): no_storage_organ (1) [sources: Leishman_1992]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): epicormic_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 19.08 mg/g (17.06-21.03 mg/g) [sources: Schmidt_2010]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.45 mg/g (0.42-0.49 mg/g) [sources: Schmidt_2010]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -28.52 {delta}[ppth] (-29.05--28.02 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schmidt_2010]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 21.97 mg (10.63-48.19 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Leishman_1992]
  • seed_length (numerical): 5.75 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.94 mg/mm3 (0.94-0.94 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Schmidt_20102064S. Schmidt, R. E. Lamble, R. J. Fensham, and I. Siddique. “Effect of woody vegetation clearing on nutrient and carbon relations of semi-arid dystrophic savanna”. Plant and Soil 331.1-2 (2009), pp. 79-90. doi: 10.1007/s11104-009-0233-5.
White_20201818M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_20231115Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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/.
Maslin_20121012B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
Leishman_199277M. R. Leishman and M. Westoby. “Classifying plants into groups on the basis of associations of individual traits-Evidence from Australian semi-arid woodlands”. Journal of Ecology 80 (1992), pp. 417-424. doi: 10.2307/2260687.
NHNSW_2014_255Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Chen_201744Chen, 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_202244N. 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_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.
Wright_200044I. 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.
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.
Kew_2019_113Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Soliveres_201233S. Soliveres, D. J. Eldridge, F. Hemmings, and F. T. Maestre. “Nurse plant effects on plant species richness in drylands: The role of grazing, rainfall and species specificity”. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 14 (2012), pp. 402-410. doi: 10.1016/j.ppees.2012.09.003.
Ilic_200012J. 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_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Oil content data from Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.