Acacia hopperiana
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Acacia hopperiana Maslin
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Racosperma hopperianum (Maslin) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Collette_2021 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Maslin_2012 (15), Munroe_2019 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2021 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (5), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 34 records in 10 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_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; WAH_2023_2]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 100 mm (60-140 mm) [sources: Maslin_2012]
- leaf_width (numerical): 0.85 mm (0.7-1 mm) [sources: Maslin_2012]
- leaf_shape (categorical): terete (1) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1); phyllode (1) [sources: Maslin_2012; WAH_2023_2]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (3) [sources: Maslin_2012; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Maslin_2012; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnynnnn (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.37 mg (1.37-1.37 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
- seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Maslin_2012]
- seed_width (numerical): 1.75 mm (1.5-2 mm) [sources: Maslin_2012]
- seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 2.15 m (0.6-4 m) [sources: Maslin_2012; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maslin_2012 | 11 | 15 | B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 4 | 5 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.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. |
| 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/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| 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/. |
| 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. |
| Stephens_2021 | 1 | 1 | R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |