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Vachellia valida

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Vachellia valida (Tindale & Kodela) Kodela

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia bidwilli var. major Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia bidwillii var. ? major Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia pallida F.Muell. (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia valida Tindale & Kodela (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acacia pallidifolia Tindale (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (18), Chen_2017 (5), Kew_2019_6 (2), Maslin_2012 (11), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 51 records in 12 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 150 mm (45-255 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 22.75 mm (14-31.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Chen_2017]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Chen_2017]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 9.68 mm (1.8-42 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 0.95 mm (0.7-1.2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1 cm (0.3-1.7 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); narrowly_oblong (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Maslin_2012; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Maslin_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyynn (1); ynnnnnyyyyyy (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Maslin_2012]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 13.25 m (12-17 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Maslin_2012; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231118Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Maslin_2012911B. Maslin. WATTLE, Interactive Identification of Australian Acacia. Version 2. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2014.
Chen_201755Chen, 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.
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/.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_612Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Munroe_201911S. 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.
NTH_202311D. 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/.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.