Acacia hammondii

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia hammondii Maiden

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acacia hammondi Maiden (orthographic variant)
Acacia sphaerogemma Maiden & Blakely (taxonomic synonym)
Racosperma hammondii (Maiden) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acacia plectocarpa A.Cunn. ex Benth. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (16), Chen_2017 (5), Crowley_2007 (2), Dong_2017 (8), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), Maslin_2012 (13), Munroe_2019 (1), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Schulze_2014 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 38 traits from 77 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): fire_killed (3) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 43.5 mm (27-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 6.5 mm (5-8 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]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 55 mm (25-85 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
leaf_width (numerical): 5.25 mm (3-7.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 205.45 g/m2 (204.63-206.27 g/m2) [sources: Dong_2017; Schulze_2014]
leaf_shape (categorical): falcate (1); linear (1); narrowly_elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1); phyllode (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Maslin_2012; Schulze_2014]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Dong_2017; Schulze_2014]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyynnnn (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Maslin_2012]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 16.02 mg/g (15.73-16.3 mg/g) [sources: Dong_2017; Schulze_2014]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -29.26 {delta}[ppth] (-29.9--28.63 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Dong_2017; Schulze_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 6.28 mg (6.28-6.28 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 4.62 mm (3.5-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 3.92 m (2.5-5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	11	16	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Maslin_2012	11	13	B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
Dong_2017	8	8	N. Dong, I. C. Prentice, B. J. Evans, S. Caddy-Retalic, A. J. Lowe, and I. J. Wright. “Leaf nitrogen from first principles: field evidence for adaptive variation with climate”. Biogeosciences 14.2 (2017), pp. 481-495. doi: 10.5194/bg-14-481-2017.
Schulze_2014	8	8	E. D. Schulze, D. Nicolle, A. Boerner, M. Lauerer, G. Aas, and I. Schulze. “Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of Eucalyptus and Acacia species along a seasonal rainfall gradient in Western Australia”. Trees 28.4 (2014), pp. 1125-1135. doi: 10.1007/s00468-014-1023-0.
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.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
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.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Kew_2019_6	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Nano_2011	2	2	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. 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_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.