AusTraits

Acacia imbricata

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia imbricata F.Muell.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Racosperma imbricatum (F.Muell.) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia lineata A.Cunn. ex G.Don (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): SA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (18), Chen_2017 (5), Collette_2021 (1), Draper_2023 (3), Gallagher_2011_1 (1), Gallagher_2011_3 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), Manea_2011 (1), Maslin_2012 (13), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 35 traits from 74 records in 16 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): 70 mm (70-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 5.25 mm (4.5-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 13.67 mm (10-18 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.58 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 91.24 g/m2 (91.24-91.24 g/m2) [sources: Gallagher_2011_3]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); narrowly_oblong (2); oblanceolate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): crowded (2); imbricate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1); phyllode (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; SAH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): dense (2); spreading (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); endozoochory (1); myrmecochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersers (categorical): ants (1); passive (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 9.82 mg (9.82-9.82 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 3.88 mm (3.5-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (2); ovoid (2); ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; SAH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.5 m (1-2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; SAH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231318Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_20231114S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Maslin_20121013B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
Chen_201755Chen, 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_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_202244S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_202111J. 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.
Gallagher_2011_111R. V. Gallagher, M. R. Leishman, J. T. Miller, C. Hui, D. M. Richardson, J. Suda, and P. Travnicek. “Invasiveness in introduced Australian acacias: The role of species traits and genome size”. Diversity and Distributions 17 (2011), pp. 884-897. doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00805.x.
Gallagher_2011_311R. V. Gallagher, M. R. Leishman, J. T. Miller, C. Hui, D. M. Richardson, J. Suda, and P. Travnicek. “Invasiveness in introduced Australian acacias: The role of species traits and genome size”. Diversity and Distributions 17 (2011), pp. 884-897. doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00805.x.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_611Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Manea_201111A. Manea. “Unpublished data: Dispersal appendage data for Acacia via Worldwide Wattle, Macquarie University”. 2011.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.