Acacia spectrum
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Acacia spectrum Lewington & Maslin
Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Acacia sp. Mitchell River (M.King s.n. 15/2/2003) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
- Acacia spectra Lewington & Maslin (orthographic variant)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (18), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 31 records in 6 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 (1) [sources: Yang_2023]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Yang_2023]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 130 mm (110-150 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 9 mm (8-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 450 mm (300-600 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 1.75 mm (1.5-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): filiform (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): phyllode (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): open (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 7.5 mm (7-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 5 m (4-6 m) [sources: ABRS_2023]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRS_2023 | 12 | 18 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| ABRS_2022 | 4 | 4 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Yang_2023 | 2 | 2 | S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |