Acacia tropica
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Acacia tropica (Maiden & Blakely) Tindale
Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Acacia cunninghamii var. tropica Maiden & Blakely (nomenclatural synonym)
- Racosperma tropicum (Maiden & Blakely) 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 (9), Chen_2017 (5), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), Maslin_2012 (12), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 22 traits from 43 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.
fire response
- resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
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): 125 mm (90-160 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
- leaf_width (numerical): 27 mm (13-41 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (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 (3); 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]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyynnnn (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Maslin_2012]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 8.65 mg (8.65-8.65 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 5.5 m (3-8 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maslin_2012 | 9 | 12 | B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014. |
| ABRS_2023 | 6 | 9 | 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 | 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. |
| 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. |
| Kew_2019_6 | 1 | 2 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the 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. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. 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. |