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Acacia retinodes

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia retinodes Schltdl.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia retinodes Schltdl. var. retinodes (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Acacia retinodes var. ('Normanville' variant) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia rhetinodes J.M.Black (orthographic variant)
  • Racosperma retinodes (Schltdl.) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): SA (native and naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (15), Cheal_2017 (8), Chen_2017 (4), Collette_2021 (1), Draper_2023 (3), Gallagher_2011_1 (1), Gallagher_2011_3 (1), Manea_2011 (1), Maslin_2012 (14), McGlone_2015 (6), RBGK_2014 (2), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (14), Schmidt_1993 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Staples_2019 (80), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (36), Williams_2011 (8). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 58 traits from 208 records in 21 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 160 mm (160-160 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 9.5 mm (8-11 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 451.76 mm2 (256.61-615.21 mm2) [sources: Staples_2019]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 130 mm (30-220 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 9.1 mm (3-15 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 60.24 mg (30.5-90.3 mg) [sources: Staples_2019]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 118.23 g/m2 (103.84-153.99 g/m2) [sources: Gallagher_2011_3; Staples_2019]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); linear (2); narrowly_oblanceolate (1); oblanceolate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Maslin_2012; McGlone_2015]
  • leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1); not_glaucous (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): crowded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1); phyllode (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: White_2020; Williams_2011]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (8) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; McGlone_2015; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020; Williams_2011]
  • life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Williams_2011]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cheal_2017; Maslin_2012; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (3) [sources: White_2020; Williams_2011]
  • root_structure (categorical): ectomycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_1993]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (3) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • pollination_system (categorical): biotic_unspecialised (1) [sources: Williams_2011]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); endozoochory (1); myrmecochory (2); zoochory (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020; Williams_2011]
  • dispersers (categorical): ants (1); invertebrates (2); passive (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnyyy (2); yynnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: Maslin_2012; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): long_persistent (1); persistent (2) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Williams_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 15.32 mg (9.36-21.28 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]
  • seed_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (3); ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; SAH_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.75 mg/mm3 (0.65-0.82 mg/mm3) [sources: Staples_2019]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Staples_2019480T. Staples, J. M. Dwyer, J. R. England, and M. M. Mayfield. “Productivity does not correlate with species and functional diversity in Australian reforestation plantings across a wide climate gradient”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28.10 (2019), pp. 1417-1429. doi: 10.1111/geb.12962.
White_20201836M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_20231115Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Maslin_20121114B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
SAH_20231014S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Cheal_201788D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
Williams_201188R. P. Duncan, S. E. Clemants, R. T. Corlett, A. K. Hahs, M. A. McCarthy, M. J. McDonnell, M. W. Schwartz, K. Thompson, P. A. Vesk, and N. S. G. Williams. “Plant traits and extinction in urban areas: a meta-analysis of 11 cities”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20.4 (2011), pp. 509-519. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00633.x.
McGlone_201566M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
Chen_201744Chen, 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_200644A. 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_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Draper_202333J. 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.
SAH_202233S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
RBGK_201412Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_202111J. 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.
Gallagher_2011_111R. V. Gallagher, M. R. Leishman, J. T. Miller, C. Hui, D. M. Richardson, J. Suda, and P. Travnicek. “Invasiveness in introduced Australian acacias: The role of species traits and genome size”. Diversity and Distributions 17 (2011), pp. 884-897. doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00805.x.
Gallagher_2011_311R. V. Gallagher, M. R. Leishman, J. T. Miller, C. Hui, D. M. Richardson, J. Suda, and P. Travnicek. “Invasiveness in introduced Australian acacias: The role of species traits and genome size”. Diversity and Distributions 17 (2011), pp. 884-897. doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00805.x.
Manea_201111A. Manea. “Unpublished data: Dispersal appendage data for Acacia via Worldwide Wattle, Macquarie University”. 2011.
Schmidt_199311S. Schmidt. “Unpublished data: Compilation of mycorrhizal status data, University of Queensland”. 1993.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.