Acacia sp. New England (J.B.Williams 97011)

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia sp. New England (J.B.Williams 97011) NSW Herbarium

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acacia nova-anglica J.B.Williams ms. (Williams 97011) (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia nova-anglica Maslin (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia sp. aff. falciformis (McColl 9/98) (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Clarke_2009 (13), Clarke_2015 (3), Kew_2019_6 (1), Knox_2011 (6), Maslin_2012 (12), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (15), NSWFRD_2014 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 32 traits from 67 records in 11 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): resprouts (7) [sources: Clarke_2009; Clarke_2015; Knox_2011; NSWFRD_2014]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 48 mo (48-48 mo) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 120 mm (50-190 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 16 mm (10-22 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 95 mm (50-140 mm) [sources: Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 19 mm (8-30 mm) [sources: Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 197.36 g/m2 (197.36-197.36 g/m2) [sources: Knox_2011]
leaf_shape (categorical): falcate (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); oblanceolate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): oblique (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1); phyllode (1) [sources: Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (5) [sources: Clarke_2009; Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): bushy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnnnn (2) [sources: Maslin_2012; NSWFRD_2014]
bud_bank_location (categorical): bud-bearing_root (5); underground_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2009; Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014]

seed morphology

seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.72 mg/mm3 (0.72-0.72 mg/mm3) [sources: Knox_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 4.67 m (3-8 m) [sources: Maslin_2012; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
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/.
Clarke_2009	4	13	P. J. Clarke, K. J. E. Knox, M. L. Campbell, and L. M. Copeland. “Post-fire recovery of woody plants in the New England Tableland Bioregion”. Cunninghamia 11 (2009), pp. 221-239. doi: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4907.
Maslin_2012	10	12	B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
Knox_2011	6	6	K. J. E. Knox and P. J. Clarke. “Fire severity and nutrient availability do not constrain resprouting in forest shrubs”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 1967-1978. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9956-5.
NSWFRD_2014	6	6	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.
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/.
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.
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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.