Acacia stellaticeps

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia stellaticeps Kodela, Tindale & D.Keith

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acacia humilis (Benth.) Tindale & D.Keith (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia translucens var. humilis Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Racosperma stellaticeps (Kodela, Tindale & D.Keith) Pedley (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (10), Chen_2017 (5), Kew_2019_1 (2), Maslin_2012 (13), Munroe_2019 (1), Schulze_2014 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wenk_2023_2 (1), Yang_2023 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 33 traits from 58 records in 14 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: 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_type (categorical): legume (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 16.5 mm (8-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
leaf_width (numerical): 7 mm (4-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 330.43 g/m2 (330.43-330.43 g/m2) [sources: Schulze_2014]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); obovate (1); orbicular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1); phyllode (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): dense (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Maslin_2012; Schulze_2014]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Schulze_2014]
flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyyyyynnn (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Maslin_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): root_crown (1) [sources: Yang_2023]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 17.53 mg/g (17.53-17.53 mg/g) [sources: Schulze_2014]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -29.45 {delta}[ppth] (-29.45--29.45 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schulze_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 13.41 mg (12.89-13.94 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 6 mm (6-6 mm) [sources: Maslin_2012]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (2); ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.67 m (1-2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Maslin_2012	11	13	B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
ABRS_2023	8	10	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Schulze_2014	8	8	E. D. Schulze, D. Nicolle, A. Boerner, M. Lauerer, G. Aas, and I. Schulze. “Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of Eucalyptus and Acacia species along a seasonal rainfall gradient in Western Australia”. Trees 28.4 (2014), pp. 1125-1135. doi: 10.1007/s00468-014-1023-0.
Chen_2017	5	5	Chen, 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_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.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
Yang_2023	3	3	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wenk_2023_2	1	1	E. Wenk and D. Coleman. “Unpublished: Rain and flood-related flowering cues for Australia's flora, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2023.