Acacia subcaerulea

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia subcaerulea Lindl.

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acacia apiculata Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia subcaerulea Lindl. var. subcaerulea (nomenclatural synonym)
Acacia subcaerulea var. parvifolia Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia subcaerulescens F.Cels ex Jacques (orthographic variant)
Acacia subcoerulea F.Muell. (orthographic variant)
Racosperma subcaeruleum (Lindl.) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2023 (5), ANBG_2019 (1), Chen_2017 (4), Collette_2021 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), Maslin_2012 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 41 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.

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: 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): 52.5 mm (25-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
leaf_width (numerical): 6.5 mm (3-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1); phyllode (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Maslin_2012; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); spreading (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 30.45 mg (25.98-34.93 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2 m (1-3 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Maslin_2012	6	8	B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
ABRS_2023	3	5	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Chen_2017	4	4	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.
Sweedman_2006	2	4	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
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/.
Wright_2000	3	3	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ANBG_2019	1	1	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.