Acacia sporadica

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia sporadica N.G.Walsh

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acacia aff. penninervis (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia sp. C (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia sp. Carboor East (B.R.Maslin 5967) (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), Cheal_2017 (6), Kew_2019_1 (1), Maslin_2012 (9), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (16), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 41 traits from 81 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): fire_killed (1); resprouts (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 77.5 mm (40-90 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 13 mm (10-17 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 46.67 mm (25-65 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 18.75 mm (8-32 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); oblanceolate (1); obovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1); phyllode (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cheal_2017; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 17.62 mg (17.62-17.62 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 4.67 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; RBGV_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (3); ovoid_elongated (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; RBGV_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2.38 m (0.3-3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; RBGV_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_2023	12	17	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_2023	12	16	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Maslin_2012	7	9	B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
Cheal_2017	6	6	D. 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.
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.
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.
RBGV_2022	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
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/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.