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Acacia riceana

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia riceana Hensl.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia axillaris var. macrophylla F.Muell. ex Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia riceana Hensl. var. riceana (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Acacia setigera Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia verticillata var. riceana (Hensl.) L.Neumann (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Racosperma riceanum (Hensl.) Pedley (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (17), Chen_2017 (5), Jordan_2001 (4), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kirkpatrick_2020 (2), Maslin_2012 (13), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 63 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.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (1); hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 62.5 mm (60-65 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 117.81 mm2 (117.81-117.81 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 33.33 mm (15-50 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 2 mm (1-3 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): acicular (1); linear (1); narrowly_lanceolate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Maslin_2012; McGlone_2015]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1); phyllode (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; McGlone_2015; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001; Maslin_2012; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnyyyyyy (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Maslin_2012]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1); soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 11.48 mg (9.16-12.77 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Mokany_2015]
  • seed_length (numerical): 5.62 mm (4.5-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 10 m (10-10 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231217Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Maslin_20121113B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
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_201755Chen, 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.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Jordan_200144G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
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.
Mokany_201533K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kirkpatrick_202022J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.