AusTraits

Acacia lamprocarpa

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia lamprocarpa O.Schwarz

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia aulacocarpa NT/WA group (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia aulacocarpa subsp. A (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia sp. (=RFK/25433) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia sp. (Cape Bernier BH 25433RFK) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Racosperma lamprocarpum (O.Schwartz) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia aulacocarpa A.Cunn. ex Benth. (pro parte misapplied)
  • Acacia aulacocarpa A.Cunn. ex Benth. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (20), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Gross_2005 (4), Kooyman_2011 (13), Lawes_2012 (19), Maslin_2012 (16), Munroe_2019 (1), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Schmidt_2003 (7), Schulze_2014 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2021 (2), Stewart_1995 (5), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2008 (16). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 43 traits from 137 records in 21 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): partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 60 mm (20-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 18 mm (14-22 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 1676.5 mm2 (1013-2340 mm2) [sources: Wright_2008]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 116.67 mm (55-185 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 19.17 mm (9-35 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 201.66 g/m2 (133.69-252.95 g/m2) [sources: Schulze_2014; Wright_2008]
  • leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: Stewart_1995]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): falcate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1); phyllode (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: Munroe_2019; Schmidt_2003; Stewart_1995]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012; Schmidt_2003; Stewart_1995; 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 (5) [sources: Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012; Schmidt_2003; Schulze_2014; Stewart_1995]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (4) [sources: Schmidt_2003; Schulze_2014; Stewart_1995; Wright_2008]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyynnnnnn (2); nyyyyyyyyynn (1) [sources: Maslin_2012; Stephens_2021]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): bud-bearing_root (2); epicormic_buds (1); rhizome (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 19.45 mg/g (17.6-22.38 mg/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003; Schulze_2014; Wright_2008]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.54 mg/g (0.52-0.55 mg/g) [sources: Wright_2008]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -28.75 {delta}[ppth] (-30.2--27.3 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schmidt_2003; Schulze_2014]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 5.67 mm (4-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.17 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); sinusoidal (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.62 mg/mm3 (0.62-0.62 mg/mm3) [sources: Wright_2008]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 10.25 m (3-15 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231320Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Lawes_2012119M. J. Lawes, J. J. Midgley, and P. J. Clarke. “Costs and benefits of relative bark thickness in relation to fire damage: A savanna/forest contrast”. Journal of Ecology 101 (2012), pp. 517-524. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12035.
Maslin_20121216B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
Wright_2008916I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Trait data for Northern Territory savanna species, Macquarie University”. 2008.
Kooyman_2011913R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Schulze_201488E. 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.
Schmidt_200377S. Schmidt and G. R. Stewart. “d15N values of tropical savanna and monsoon forest species reflect root specialisations and soil nitrogen status”. Oecologia 134 (2003), pp. 569-577. doi: 10.1007/s00442-002-1150-y.
Stewart_199555G. Stewart, M. Turnbull, S. Schmidt, and P. Erskine. “13C natural abundance in plant communities along a rainfall gradient: a biological integrator of water availability”. Functional Plant Biology 22.1 (1995), pp. 51-55. doi: 10.1071/pp9950051.
Gross_200544C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
RussellSmith_201244J. 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_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.
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.
Clarke_201533P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. 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.
Stephens_202112R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
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.
Munroe_201911S. 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_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.