AusTraits

Vachellia douglasica

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Vachellia douglasica (Pedley) Kodela

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia douglasica Maslin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia douglasica Pedley (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Acacia sp. D Douglas R. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (20), Maslin_2012 (14), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (20), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 22 traits from 67 records in 8 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
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 58.75 mm (40-65 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); brown (2); grey (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 13.38 mm (1.6-75 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 0.67 mm (0.5-0.9 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_oblong (1); oblong (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; 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 (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 10.67 mm (10-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 9 mm (9-9 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); ovoid_elongated (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 5.67 m (5-7 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231320Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_20231420D. 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/.
Maslin_20121114B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
RussellSmith_201244J. 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.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_202233D. 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_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.