Acacia ramulosa var. ramulosa

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia ramulosa W.Fitzg. var. ramulosa

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Racosperma ramulosum (W.Fitzg.) Pedley var. ramulosum (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (9), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (1), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (15), NSWFRD_2014 (8), Nano_2011 (7), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Schulze_2014 (31), Stephens_2021 (2), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 36 traits from 96 records in 16 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 (6); resprouts (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; NSWFRD_2014; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (3); post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014; Nano_2011]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 90 mm (20-160 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 6 mm (4-8 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); yellow (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 125 mm (70-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 2.22 mm (1-3.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 735.04 g/m2 (564.12-857.86 g/m2) [sources: Schulze_2014]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); terete (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): phyllode (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5); tree (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); spreading (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Schulze_2014]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Schulze_2014]
flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyyyyynnn (1); nnyyyyyyyynn (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; Stephens_2021]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (3) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2); bud-bearing_root (1); none (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; NSWFRD_2014; Nano_2011]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 17.65 mg/g (13.47-24.97 mg/g) [sources: Schulze_2014]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -25.69 {delta}[ppth] (-26.21--25.3 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schulze_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 87.41 mg (87.41-87.41 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 3.75 m (1-6 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Schulze_2014	8	31	E. D. Schulze, D. Nicolle, A. Boerner, M. Lauerer, G. Aas, and I. Schulze. “Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of Eucalyptus and Acacia species along a seasonal rainfall gradient in Western Australia”. Trees 28.4 (2014), pp. 1125-1135. doi: 10.1007/s00468-014-1023-0.
NHNSW_2023	10	15	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ABRS_2023	7	9	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NSWFRD_2014	8	8	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Nano_2011	6	7	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.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.
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.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Stephens_2021	1	2	R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
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/.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.