Acacia tephrina
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Acacia tephrina Pedley
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Racosperma tephrinum (Pedley) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): NT, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (12), Chen_2017 (4), Draper_2023 (3), Maslin_2012 (11), Munroe_2019 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2021 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 42 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): 65 mm (65-65 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- 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): 90 mm (70-110 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
- leaf_width (numerical): 3.25 mm (2-4.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
- leaf_shape (categorical): linear (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): tree (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_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]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyynnnn (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (5.5-5.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 20 m (20-20 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRS_2023 | 9 | 12 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| Maslin_2012 | 9 | 11 | B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Draper_2023 | 3 | 3 | J. 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. |
| 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. |
| Stephens_2021 | 1 | 1 | R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |