Leucaena leucocephala

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acacia glauca Willd. (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia leucocephala (Lam.) Link (nomenclatural synonym)
Leucaena glauca (Willd.) Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Mimosa glauca L. (taxonomic synonym)
Mimosa leucocephala Lam. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (21), ATRP_2020 (1), Burrows_2008_2 (4), Burrows_2020 (3), Cooper_2013 (13), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (22), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (25), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (6). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 36 traits from 115 records in 16 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 (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): green (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 131.67 mm (55-225 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 17.83 mm (10-27 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 48.9 mm (3-350 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 3.31 mm (1-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 3.5 cm (2-5 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (3); narrowly_oblong (1); oblong (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): oblique (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): dense (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (1); yyyynnnnnnyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 6.33 mm (5-9 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 4.12 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): discoid (1); ovoid (2); ovoid_flattened (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 6.6 m (2-10 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	14	25	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/.
NHNSW_2023	14	22	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ABRS_2023	14	21	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Wright_2000	6	6	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
Burrows_2008_2	4	4	N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
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/.
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.
Burrows_2020	3	3	N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
NHNSW_2014_2	3	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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.
ATRP_2020	1	1	F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.