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Acacia flavescens

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia flavescens A.Cunn. ex Benth.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia flavescens A.Cunn. ex Benth. var. flavescens (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Acacia flavescens var. nobilis Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia flavescens var. typica Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Racosperma flavescens (A.Cunn. ex Benth.) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (16), Chen_2017 (5), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (4), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_6 (1), Kooyman_2011 (13), Maslin_2012 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tng_2013 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Westoby_2014 (80), Williams_2012 (3), Wright_2000 (3), Zieminska_2013 (30). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 78 traits from 203 records in 18 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): 116.25 mm (60-165 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 20.75 mm (15-28 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 (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 5669.33 mm2 (4594-6354 mm2) [sources: Tng_2013; Westoby_2014]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 195 mm (90-300 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 38.67 mm (12-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 142.93 g/m2 (108.2-182.7 g/m2) [sources: Tng_2013; Westoby_2014]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): falcate (1); lanceolate (1); narrowly_elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1); phyllode (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): 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 (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2); epicormic_buds (1); root_crown (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Williams_2012]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 24.06 mg/g (20.8-27.31 mg/g) [sources: Westoby_2014]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.62 mg/g (0.39-0.85 mg/g) [sources: Westoby_2014]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -29.13 {delta}[ppth] (-32.82--26.03 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Tng_2013; Westoby_2014]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 30.31 mg (26.62-34 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 6.62 mm (6-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.25 mm (3-3.5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.73 mg/mm3 (0.6-0.8 mg/mm3) [sources: Tng_2013; Westoby_2014; Zieminska_2013]
  • huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Westoby_2014]
  • stem_vessel_density (numerical): 72.57 {count}/mm2 (53.24-96.59 {count}/mm2) [sources: Zieminska_2013]
  • stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 42.94 um (38.24-48.03 um) [sources: Zieminska_2013]
  • stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.1 mm2/mm2 (0.1-0.11 mm2/mm2) [sources: Zieminska_2013]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 16 m (4-20 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Westoby_20143480S. 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.
Zieminska_20131030K. Ziemińska, D. W. Butler, S. M. Gleason, I. J. Wright, and M. Westoby. “Fibre wall and lumen fractions drive wood density variation across 24 Australian angiosperms”. AoB PLANTS 5 (2013), p. plt046. doi: 10.1093/aobpla/plt046.
ABRS_20231116Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_20131114W. 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.
Maslin_20121013B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
Tng_201366D. Y. P. Tng, G. J. Jordan, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Plant traits demonstrate that temperate and tropical giant Eucalypt forests are ecologically convergent with rainforest not savanna”. PLoS ONE 8 (2013), p. e84378. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084378.
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.
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/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.