Acacia provincialis

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia provincialis A.Camus

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acacia floribunda G.Nicholson (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia fragrans Pottier (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia longissima Chopinet (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia retinodes var. floribunda H.Vilm. (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia retinodes var. retinodes "Swamp Wattle" (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia retinodes var. retinodes (swamp variant) (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia semperflorens A.Berger (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia sp. Swamp (N.M.Smith 3022) SA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)

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

Acacia retinodes Schltdl. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): SA, Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (16), Collette_2021 (1), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (3), Kew_2019_6 (1), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (17), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 74 records in 12 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: White_2020]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 160 mm (160-160 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 6 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 135 mm (70-220 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 14.5 mm (3-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2); narrowly_elliptical (2); narrowly_oblanceolate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (2); not_glaucous (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): phyllode (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): bushy (1); open (1) [sources: RBGV_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); endozoochory (1); myrmecochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): ants (1); invertebrates (1); passive (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 11.17 mg (9.36-12.68 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (2); ovoid_elongated (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 7.25 m (5-10 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_2023	12	17	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
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.
RBGV_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
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.
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.
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.
Kew_2019_1	1	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. 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_6	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the 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.