Acacia plectocarpa subsp. plectocarpa
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Acacia plectocarpa A.Cunn. ex Benth. subsp. plectocarpa
Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Acacia numerosa Maiden & Blakely (taxonomic synonym)
- Racosperma plectocarpum (Benth.) Pedley subsp. plectocarpum (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2023 (11), Kew_2019_1 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (4), 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 18 traits from 25 records in 7 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 (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
fruit morphology
- fruit_width (numerical): 9 mm (6-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): legume (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 149 mm (98-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 9.25 mm (4.5-14 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); narrowly_elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): phyllode (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): spindly (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 11.84 mg (11.84-11.84 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 6 m (2-10 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRS_2023 | 8 | 11 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. 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. |
| 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/. |
| 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/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |