Acacia hubbardiana

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia hubbardiana Pedley

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acacia plagiophylla F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Acacia undulifolia var. humilis Benth. (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
Racosperma hubbardianum (Pedley) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (11), Chen_2017 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (3), Maslin_2012 (12), McCarthy_2017 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 57 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_length (numerical): 50 mm (50-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 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_area (numerical): 14.97 mm2 (10.33-21.31 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
leaf_length (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
leaf_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (3-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 121.67 g/m2 (96.91-140.9 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1); phyllode (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (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]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): spreading (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 9.13 mg (9.13-9.13 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (4.5-4.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.72 mg/mm3 (0.71-0.73 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2 m (2-2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
McCarthy_2017	3	15	J. 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.
Maslin_2012	10	12	B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
ABRS_2023	8	11	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
Chen_2017	4	4	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.
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.
Kew_2019_6	1	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.