Acacia verticillata subsp. cephalantha

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia verticillata subsp. cephalantha (F.Muell.) Court

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acacia ovoidea var. tenuifolia Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia verticillata var. cephalantha F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Racosperma verticillatum subsp. cephalanthum (F.Muell.) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (7), Muir_2014 (3), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (7), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19), Williams_2011 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 37 traits from 57 records in 9 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: White_2020]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 0.4 mm (0.3-0.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 96.01 g/m2 (85.63-106.38 g/m2) [sources: Muir_2014; Williams_2011]
leaf_shape (categorical): acicular (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): phyllode (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: White_2020; Williams_2011]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5); tree (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020; Williams_2011]
life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Williams_2011]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2); spreading (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020; Williams_2011]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_system (categorical): biotic_unspecialised (1) [sources: Williams_2011]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): myrmecochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: White_2020; Williams_2011]
dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyyyy (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Williams_2011]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 26.1 mg/g (26.1-26.1 mg/g) [sources: Muir_2014]

seed morphology

seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 6 m (2-10 m) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): sharp_pointed_defence (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Williams_2011	10	10	R. P. Duncan, S. E. Clemants, R. T. Corlett, A. K. Hahs, M. A. McCarthy, M. J. McDonnell, M. W. Schwartz, K. Thompson, P. A. Vesk, and N. S. G. Williams. “Plant traits and extinction in urban areas: a meta-analysis of 11 cities”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20.4 (2011), pp. 509-519. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00633.x.
ABRS_2023	6	7	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_2023	6	7	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Muir_2014	3	3	A. M. Muir, P. A. Vesk, and G. Hepworth. “Reproductive trajectories over decadal time-spans after fire for eight obligate-seeder shrub species in south-eastern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany 62.5 (2014), pp. 369-379. doi: 10.1071/bt14117.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.