Acacia gordonii

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia gordonii (Tindale) Pedley

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acacia brunioides subsp. gordonii Tindale (nomenclatural synonym)
Racosperma gordonii (Tindale) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (21), ANBG_2019 (6), Chen_2017 (5), Clarke_2015 (1), Collette_2021 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), Maslin_2012 (13), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (14), NSWFRD_2014 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 39 traits from 91 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): resprouts (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014; Yang_2023]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Yang_2023]

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): 46.25 mm (20-55 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 11.75 mm (9-15 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 (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 11.33 mm (5-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 0.85 mm (0.7-1 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): terete (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1); obtuse (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): recurved (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1); whorled (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): clustered (1); crowded (1); spiral (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1); phyllode (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2); spreading (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyynnn (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; Yang_2023]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 12.69 mg (11.89-13.5 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 3.92 mm (3-4.26 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
seed_width (numerical): 2.88 mm (2.88-2.88 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (2); ovoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; ANBG_2019; Maslin_2012]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.97 m (0.5-1.5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	16	21	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2023	9	14	N. 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_2012	10	13	B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
ANBG_2019	6	6	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
NSWFRD_2014	6	6	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Chen_2017	5	5	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.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2014_2	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	N. 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_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.
Yang_2023	3	3	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Clarke_2015	1	1	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.
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_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_6	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.