AusTraits

Acacia meisneri

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia meisneri Lehm. ex Meisn.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia angustifolia B.D.Jacks. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia meisneri Lehm. ex Meisn. var. meisneri (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Acacia meisneri var. angustifolia Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia meissneri F.Muell. (orthographic variant)
  • Racosperma meisneri (Lehm. ex Meisn.) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia triquetra Benth. (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), ANBG_2019 (5), Chen_2017 (5), Collette_2021 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Maslin_2012 (13), Read_2005 (29), 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 36 traits from 92 records in 14 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): 100 mm (100-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 6.5 mm (6-7 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): 91.35 mm2 (76.4-108.9 mm2) [sources: Read_2005]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 27.5 mm (15-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 10 mm (5-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 214.59 g/m2 (187.62-244.5 g/m2) [sources: Read_2005]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblanceolate (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1); not_glaucous (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1); phyllode (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; Read_2005]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; 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): dense (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Chen_2017]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
nutrient and stable isotope
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 35.13 mg (28.23-42.02 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 6.35 mm (5.5-7 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.65 mm (3.65-3.65 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (2); ovoid (1); ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; ANBG_2019; Maslin_2012]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2.83 m (1-4 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Read_2005829J. Read, G. D. Sanson, and B. B. Lamont. “Leaf mechanical properties in sclerophyll woodland and shrubland on contrasting soils”. Plant and Soil 276 (2005), pp. 95-113. doi: 10.1007/s11104-005-3343-8.
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_20121013B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
ANBG_201955Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
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.
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/.
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.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.