AusTraits

Acacia midgleyi

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia midgleyi M.W.McDonald & Maslin

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia sp. (McIlwraith Range BH 3082RFK) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia sp. (McIlwraith Range) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia sp. (Wenlock River) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Racosperma midgleyi (M.W.McDonald & Maslin) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia aulacocarpa North Qld group (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (20), Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (13), Maslin_2012 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 76 records in 10 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): monoecious (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 85 mm (50-120 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 16.25 mm (10-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 105.83 mm (60-165 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 22.67 mm (4-42 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]
  • 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
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 21.03 mg (21.03-21.03 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 5.88 mm (4-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2.83 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (2); ovoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 20.75 m (8-25 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Maslin_2012]

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.
Maslin_20121115B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
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.
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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.