AusTraits

Acacia tenuior

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia tenuior Maiden

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Racosperma tenuius (Maiden) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): SA

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, SA eFlora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (11), Chen_2017 (4), Draper_2023 (3), Maslin_2012 (8), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 20 traits from 40 records in 10 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_length (numerical): 100 mm (100-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 7 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; SAH_2023; 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): 110 mm (80-140 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 0.9 mm (0.8-1 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): filiform (1); terete (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
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); endozoochory (1); myrmecochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersers (categorical): ants (1); passive (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2 m (2-2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_2023811Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Maslin_201278B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
Chen_201744Chen, 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_200644A. 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_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
SAH_202233S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
SAH_202311S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.