Vachellia pallidifolia

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Vachellia pallidifolia (Tindale) Kodela

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acacia calcigera Tindale (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia pallida F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Acacia pallidifolia Tindale (nomenclatural synonym)
Acacia sp. H (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia sp. H Kimberley Flora (taxonomic synonym)
Acacia turbata Pedley (taxonomic synonym)
Vachellia turbata (Pedley) Pedley (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld (doubtfully naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (19), Chen_2017 (5), Clarke_2015 (1), Crowley_2007 (2), Ilic_2000 (1), Maslin_2012 (13), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (20), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 33 traits from 80 records in 15 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); resprouts (1) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 103.75 mm (55-150 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 17.75 mm (12-22 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NTH_2023]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Chen_2017]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Chen_2017]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 27.58 mm (5-95 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (1-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.5 cm (0.8-2.2 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (2); narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_oblong (2); 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); recurved (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NTH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
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 (2) [sources: Maslin_2012; NTH_2014]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyynn (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Maslin_2012; NTH_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 9 mm (9-9 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 8.5 mm (8.5-8.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): discoid (1); ellipsoid (1) [sources: Maslin_2012; NTH_2023]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.68 mg/mm3 (0.68-0.68 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 6.33 m (4-9 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	14	20	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/.
ABRS_2023	11	19	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.
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.
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.
NTH_2014	3	3	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
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/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Clarke_2015	1	1	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
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.
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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.