Acacia littorea

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia littorea Maslin

Synonyms: 9 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acacia cuneata var. glabra Meisn. (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
Acacia decipiens var. multiflora Ser. (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia decipiens var. praemorsa Graham (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia decipiens var. trapezoidea DC. (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia decipiens var. triangularis Ser. (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia dolabriformis Colla (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia praemorsa Graham (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia schottiana Seem. (taxonomic synonym)
Racosperma littoreum (Maslin) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)

Misapplied names: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acacia decipiens R.Br. (misapplied)
Acacia truncata (Burm.f.) Hoffmanns. (misapplied)
Mimosa decipiens K.D.Koenig (pro parte misapplied)
Phyllodoce decipiens Link (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (18), ANBG_2019 (7), Barrett_2009 (4), Burrows_2008_2 (5), Burrows_2020 (5), Chen_2017 (6), Collette_2021 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Maslin_2012 (14), Pate_1990 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (4), 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 40 traits from 87 records in 17 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): fire_killed (4) [sources: Barrett_2009; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Pate_1990]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; Pate_1990]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 33 mo (33-33 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 60 mm (60-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 3 mm (2.5-3.5 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]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 12 mm (7-17 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
leaf_width (numerical): 10 mm (5-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
leaf_shape (categorical): obtriangular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): crowded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1); phyllode (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Barrett_2009; Maslin_2012; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Maslin_2012; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): dense (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
reproductive_maturity (numerical): 2.75 a (2.75-2.75 a) [sources: Burrows_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyyyy (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Maslin_2012]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (3) [sources: Barrett_2009; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 4.89 mg (3.58-5.63 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 2.99 mm (2.5-3.22 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
seed_width (numerical): 1.93 mm (1.93-1.93 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); ovoid_elongated (1); polyhedral (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; ANBG_2019; Maslin_2012]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.58 m (0.5-3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	13	18	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Maslin_2012	11	14	B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
ANBG_2019	6	7	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Chen_2017	6	6	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.
Burrows_2008_2	5	5	N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
Burrows_2020	5	5	N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
Pate_1990	5	5	J. S. Pate, R. H. Froend, B. J. Bowen, A. Hansen, and J. Kuo. “Seedling growth and storage characteristics of seeder and resprouter species of Mediterranean-type ecosystems of SW Australia”. Annals of Botany 65.6 (1990), pp. 585-601. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a087976.
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.
Barrett_2009	4	4	S. 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_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.
Sweedman_2006	2	4	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. 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/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.