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Acacia exudans

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia exudans Lindl.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia exsudans Benth. (orthographic variant)
  • Acacia verniciflua (Casterton variant) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia verniciflua (third variant) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia verniciflua var. Casterton (P.S.Short 1316) Vic. Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia verniciflua var. latifolia Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (16), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (17), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 37 traits from 71 records in 10 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): andromonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 45 mm (20-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 6.25 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 45 mm (30-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 12 mm (5-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); lanceolate (1); narrowly_elliptical (2); narrowly_oblong (2); oblanceolate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): phyllode (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 22.33 mg (22.33-22.33 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 4.05 mm (3.8-4.3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): discoid (1); ellipsoid (1); orbicular (1); ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20201919M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_20231117VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_20231016Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.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.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. 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.