AusTraits

Acacia pataczekii

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia pataczekii D.I.Morris

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Racosperma pataczekii (D.I.Morris) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (20), Chen_2017 (4), Jordan_2001 (4), Kirkpatrick_2020 (3), Maslin_2012 (12), McGlone_2015 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 59 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.

fire response
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (1); hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 35 mm (25-45 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 9 mm (7-11 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); purple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 35 mm (20-60 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 14.67 mm (8-20 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_oblong (1); oblanceolate (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Maslin_2012; McGlone_2015]
  • leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1); not_glaucous (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1); phyllode (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; McGlone_2015; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001; Maslin_2012; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1); soil_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 3.88 mm (3.5-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (2); ovoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 5.33 m (4-6 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; McGlone_2015]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231420Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Maslin_2012912B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
McGlone_201566M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
Chen_201744Chen, 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.
Jordan_200144G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
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.
Kirkpatrick_202033J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.