Acacia xiphophylla

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Acacia xiphophylla E.Pritz.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acacia clementi Maiden & Blakely (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia clementii Maiden & Blakely (taxonomic synonym)
Racosperma xiphophyllum (E.Pritz.) Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (18), Chen_2017 (4), Ilic_2000 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Maslin_2012 (13), Munroe_2019 (1), Schulze_2014 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2021 (1), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wenk_2023_2 (1), Yang_2023 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 39 traits from 73 records in 17 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); resprouts (1) [sources: Yang_2023]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Yang_2023]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 140 mm (80-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (7-18 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): 87.5 mm (50-125 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
leaf_width (numerical): 9.75 mm (3.5-16 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 576.24 g/m2 (576.24-576.24 g/m2) [sources: Schulze_2014]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (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): shrub (4); tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): bushy (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Maslin_2012; Schulze_2014]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Schulze_2014]
flowering_time (categorical): ynyyynnyynnn (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]
bud_bank_location (categorical): epicormic_buds (1); root_crown (1) [sources: Yang_2023]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 21.72 mg/g (21.72-21.72 mg/g) [sources: Schulze_2014]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -28.56 {delta}[ppth] (-28.56--28.56 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schulze_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 71.24 mg (71.24-71.24 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 9 mm (6-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 1.14 mg/mm3 (1.14-1.14 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 4.75 m (1.5-7 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	12	18	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	13	B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
Schulze_2014	8	8	E. D. Schulze, D. Nicolle, A. Boerner, M. Lauerer, G. Aas, and I. Schulze. “Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of Eucalyptus and Acacia species along a seasonal rainfall gradient in Western Australia”. Trees 28.4 (2014), pp. 1125-1135. doi: 10.1007/s00468-014-1023-0.
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.
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.
Sweedman_2006	2	4	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Yang_2023	3	4	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Ilic_2000	1	1	J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
Wenk_2023_2	1	1	E. Wenk and D. Coleman. “Unpublished: Rain and flood-related flowering cues for Australia's flora, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2023.