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Acacia lasiocalyx

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia lasiocalyx C.R.P.Andrews

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Racosperma lasiocalyx (C.R.P.Andrews) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia acuminata Benth. (pro parte misapplied)
  • Acacia doratoxylon A.Cunn. (pro parte misapplied)
  • Acacia signata F.Muell. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (17), Barrett_2009 (4), Chen_2017 (5), Collette_2021 (1), Gallagher_2011_1 (1), Gallagher_2011_3 (1), Ilic_2000 (1), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_4 (1), Manea_2011 (1), Maslin_2012 (14), Munroe_2019 (1), Shedley_2007 (32), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2021 (1), Sweedman_2006 (4), 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 36 traits from 103 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 160 mm (160-160 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 5 mm (4.5-5.5 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_length (numerical): 215 mm (130-300 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 6 mm (2-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 147.49 g/m2 (147.49-147.49 g/m2) [sources: Gallagher_2011_3]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1); phyllode (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (11); tree (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Barrett_2009; Maslin_2012; Shedley_2007; 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]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); open (2); spreading (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyynn (2) [sources: Maslin_2012; Stephens_2021]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (9) [sources: Barrett_2009; Shedley_2007]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 24.92 mg (23.2-26.64 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 5.75 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (2); ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.68 mg/mm3 (0.68-0.68 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 3.25 m (1.5-7 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Shedley_2007432E. F. Shedley. Fire and Biodiversity Guidelines for the Avon Basin: Consultant Report to the Avon Catchment Council and the Department of Environment and Conservation, August 2007. Tech. rep. Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia, 2007.
ABRS_20231217Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Maslin_20121114B. 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.
Barrett_200944S. Barrett, S. Comer, N. McQuoid, M. Porter, C. Tiller, and D. Utber. Identification and Conservation of Fire Sensitive Ecosystems and Species of the South Coast Natural Resource Management Region.. government. Department of Conservation and Land Management, South Coast Region, Western Australia, 2009.
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.
Sweedman_200624L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
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.
Ilic_200011J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
Kew_2019_411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Oil content data from 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.
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.
Stephens_202111R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.