Acacia pulchella var. glaberrima

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia pulchella var. glaberrima Meisn.

Synonyms: 13 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acacia denudata Lehm. (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia denudata Lehm. ex Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia denudata Lehm. ex Meisn. var. denudata (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia denudata var. gracilis Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia grandis Anon. (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia grandis Henfr. (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia grandis Jacques (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
Acacia hispidissima DC. (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia pulchella var. denudata (Lehm. ex Meisn.) E.Pritz. (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia pulchella var. grandis (Henfr.) Burtt Davy (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia pulchella var. grandis (Henfr.) Chopinet (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia pulchella var. hispidissima (DC.) Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)
Racosperma pulchellum var. glaberrimum (Meisn.) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (15), Detombeur_2021 (9), Kew_2019_1 (4), Tsakalos_2020 (18), 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 34 traits from 58 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.

fruit morphology

fruit_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 5.75 mm (1-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.05 cm (0.05-0.05 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_oblong (1); oblanceolate (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (3); not_glaucous (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Tsakalos_2020]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2); prostrate (1); sprawling (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyyyyyynn (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.45 mg/g (0.45-0.45 mg/g) [sources: Detombeur_2021]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 9.22 mg (8.47-10.99 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.25 m (0.5-2 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): spine (1); thorn (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Tsakalos_2020	17	18	J. L. Tsakalos, M. Renton, F. Riviera, E. J. Veneklaas, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Trait-based formal definition of plant functional types and functional communities in the multi-species and multi-traits context”. Ecological Complexity 40 (2019), p. 100787. doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2019.100787.
ABRS_2023	10	15	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Detombeur_2021	9	9	F. de Tombeur, E. Laliberte, H. Lambers, M. Faucon, G. Zemunik, B. L. Turner, J. Cornelis, and G. Mahy. “A shift from phenol to silica-based leaf defenses during long-term soil and ecosystem development”. Ecology Letters 24.5 (2021), pp. 984-995. doi: 10.1111/ele.13713.
Kew_2019_1	1	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.