Acacia tolmerensis

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia tolmerensis G.J.Leach

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Racosperma tolmerense (G.J.Leach) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (16), Chen_2017 (4), Clarke_2015 (3), Lord_1997 (3), Maslin_2012 (12), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (18), Nano_2011 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 33 traits from 79 records in 15 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): resprouts (4) [sources: Clarke_2015; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012; Yang_2023]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 82.5 mm (55-110 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 25 mm (20-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); grey (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 177.5 mm (110-245 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 68.33 mm (48-88 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): oblique (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1); simple (1) [sources: Maslin_2012; NTH_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): recurved (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1); phyllode (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Lord_1997; Maslin_2012; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Maslin_2012; NTH_2014]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): myrmecochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
dispersers (categorical): ants (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): bud-bearing_root (1); epicormic_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Yang_2023]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 9.33 mm (8-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 7.25 mm (7-7.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (2); ellipsoid_flattened (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.5 m (1.5-1.5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	12	18	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
ABRS_2023	11	16	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	10	12	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.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
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.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Lord_1997	3	3	J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
NTH_2014	3	3	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
NTH_2022	3	3	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Yang_2023	2	2	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
Nano_2011	1	1	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.