Acacia phlebocarpa

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia phlebocarpa F.Muell.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Racosperma phlebocarpum (F.Muell.) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acacia ixiophylla Benth. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (16), Chen_2017 (4), Dong_2017 (8), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), Maslin_2012 (13), Munroe_2019 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2021 (2), 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 33 traits from 63 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): 60 mm (60-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 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_length (numerical): 37.5 mm (20-55 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
leaf_width (numerical): 8 mm (4-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 149.07 g/m2 (149.07-149.07 g/m2) [sources: Dong_2017]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); oblong (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1); phyllode (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
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): spreading (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Dong_2017]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyynnnnnn (1); nnnyyyyyynyn (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 21.89 mg/g (21.89-21.89 mg/g) [sources: Dong_2017]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -28.31 {delta}[ppth] (-28.31--28.31 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Dong_2017]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 16.42 mg (16.42-16.42 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 4.18 mm (3.8-4.3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
seed_shape (categorical): discoid (1); ellipsoid (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.07 m (0.4-2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	11	16	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Maslin_2012	10	13	B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
Dong_2017	8	8	N. Dong, I. C. Prentice, B. J. Evans, S. Caddy-Retalic, A. J. Lowe, and I. J. Wright. “Leaf nitrogen from first principles: field evidence for adaptive variation with climate”. Biogeosciences 14.2 (2017), pp. 481-495. doi: 10.5194/bg-14-481-2017.
Chen_2017	4	4	Chen, 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.
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.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kew_2019_6	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Stephens_2021	1	2	R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.