AusTraits

Acacia glaucocarpa

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia glaucocarpa Maiden & Blakely

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia polybotrya var. foliolosa Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Racosperma glaucocarpum (Maiden & Blakely) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (20), Chen_2017 (5), Ilic_2000 (1), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_6 (1), Maslin_2012 (12), McCarthy_2017 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 26 traits from 61 records in 11 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 90 mm (50-130 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 8.25 mm (6.5-10 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]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); blue (1); green (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 7973.2 mm2 (4493.71-10731.73 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 25.25 mm (5-110 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 3 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 2 cm (1-3 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 116.58 g/m2 (105.8-133.54 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_oblong (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; 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 (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyynn (1); nyyyyyynnnnn (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Maslin_2012]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 20.2 mg (16.39-24 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.78 mg/mm3 (0.78-0.78 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 6.25 m (2.5-10 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231220Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Maslin_2012912B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
McCarthy_2017210J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
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.
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.
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.
Ilic_200011J. 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.
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.