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Acacia heterochroa subsp. heterochroa

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia heterochroa Maslin subsp. heterochroa

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia aff. myrtifolia (B.R.Maslin 4766) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Racosperma heterochroa (Maslin) Pedley subsp. heterochroa (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (10), Cochrane_2018 (15), Kew_2019_1 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 18 traits from 38 records in 8 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
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 25 mm (15-35 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 17.5 mm (10-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (1); orbicular (1); ovate (1); widely_elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): undulate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): phyllode (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): dense (1); open (1); spindly (1); spreading (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Cochrane_2018]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 8.58 mg (8.46-8.7 mg) [sources: Cochrane_2018; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1 m (0.5-1.5 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Cochrane_2018515A. Cochrane. “Temperature thresholds for germination in 20 short-range endemic plant species from a Greenstone Belt in southern Western Australia”. Plant Biology 22.S1 (2019). Ed. by J. Scheepens, pp. 103-112. doi: 10.1111/plb.12951.
ABRS_2023810Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.