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Acacia mollifolia

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia mollifolia Maiden & Blakely

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia decurrens var. lanigera Maiden (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Racosperma mollifolium (Maiden & Blakely) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW, Vic (doubtfully naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (18), ANBG_2019 (6), Chen_2017 (5), Collette_2021 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), Maslin_2012 (12), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (17), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 31 traits from 98 records in 16 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 75 mm (30-120 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (4-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; 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): grey (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 9.44 mm (2.5-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.21 mm (0.5-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.45 cm (0.2-0.7 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (3); narrowly_oblong (1); oblong (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): mallee (1); shrub (5); tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); spreading (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnyyynnnnnnn (2); nyyyynnnnnnn (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 20.92 mg (20.2-22.91 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 5.97 mm (5.97-5.97 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.13 mm (3.13-3.13 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
  • seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 4.31 m (1.5-6 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231018Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2023917N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
RBGV_20231014VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Maslin_2012912B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
ANBG_201956Australian 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.
NHNSW_2014_255Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202244N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.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.
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.
RBGV_202233VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_612Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.