Acacia mulganeura

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia mulganeura Maslin & J.E.Reid

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acacia aneura var. Bloods Range (D.J.Nelson 631) NT Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia minyura variant (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia sp. Hamersley Range hilltops (S.van Leeuwen 3552) (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia sp. Mulga short phyllodes (B.R.Maslin et al. BRM 9276) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, SA eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (21), Draper_2023 (3), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2021 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 29 traits from 41 records in 9 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 (2) [sources: RussellSmith_2012; Yang_2023]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 25 mm (15-35 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 8 mm (6-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); grey (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 35 mm (20-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); oblanceolate (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): undulate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1); not_glaucous (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): phyllode (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): compact (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); endozoochory (1); myrmecochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersers (categorical): ants (1); passive (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
flowering_time (categorical): nnyynnyynyyn (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 5 mm (4.5-5.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 3 mm (2.5-3.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2.25 m (1.5-3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	14	21	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
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.
Draper_2023	3	3	J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Stephens_2021	1	1	R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Yang_2023	1	1	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.