{ "release_id": "thrive-v1-9d751b6f6d1787853e7f8e31", "flora_id": 14, "display_name": "Acacia redolens", "scientific_name": "Acacia redolens", "document": { "schema_version": "flora-language-separated-v0.3", "language": "en", "id": 14, "taxonomy": { "original_scientific_name": "Acacia redolens", "accepted_name": "Acacia redolens Maslin", "family": "Fabaceae", "genus": "Acacia" }, "display_name": "Acacia redolens", "family_display": "Fabaceae", "genus_display": "Acacia", "description": { "summary": "Acacia redolens occurs at Western Australian salt-lake margins and on mildly saline or alkaline soils. Craig et al. compared seedlings from different saltland provenances and reported source-soil ECe, irrigation-water ECw, survival and biomass separately.", "sections": [ { "id": "s01", "title": "Overview", "paragraphs": [ { "id": "s01-p01", "text": "Acacia redolens occurs at Western Australian salt-lake margins and on mildly saline or alkaline soils. Craig et al. compared seedlings from different saltland provenances and reported source-soil ECe, irrigation-water ECw, survival and biomass separately.", "source_ids": [ "S2", "S4" ], "claim_type": "project_synthesis" } ] }, { "id": "s02", "title": "Names and classification", "paragraphs": [ { "id": "s02-p01", "text": "Acacia redolens Maslin. The native-range material includes populations on salt-lake margins and on mildly saline or alkaline soils. The experiment separately identified higher- and lower-salinity seed sources, including Ravensthorpe.", "source_ids": [ "S1", "S2", "S4", "S5" ], "claim_type": "source_fact" } ] }, { "id": "s03", "title": "Morphology and identification", "paragraphs": [ { "id": "s03-p01", "text": "This Western Australian species is a prostrate to low shrub with flattened phyllodes, yellow spherical flower heads and flat pods. Phyllode form, venation, inflorescences and pods help distinguish similar wattles in the field; salinity-response differences among provenances are not taxonomic characters.", "source_ids": [ "S2", "S4" ], "claim_type": "source_fact" } ] }, { "id": "s04", "title": "Distribution, habitat and phenology", "paragraphs": [ { "id": "s04-p01", "text": "Flora-derived Wattle records place the species on mildly saline or alkaline loams, clays and clay loams, often at salt-lake margins. Craig et al. also compared seed sources from differently saline Ravensthorpe sites.", "source_ids": [ "S1", "S2", "S4", "S5" ], "claim_type": "source_fact" }, { "id": "s04-p02", "text": "The regional sources cited here do not report a consistent flowering or fruiting season.", "source_ids": [ "S5" ], "claim_type": "evidence_gap" } ] }, { "id": "s05", "title": "Salinity in natural habitats", "paragraphs": [ { "id": "s05-p01", "text": "Western Australian records support an association with salt-lake margins and mildly saline habitats. Craig et al. further linked source-site salinity with seedling responses among provenances; this is provenance-level evidence, not a continuous root-zone exposure for an individual plant.", "source_ids": [ "S1", "S2", "S4" ], "claim_type": "project_synthesis" } ] }, { "id": "s06", "title": "Salinity studies", "paragraphs": [ { "id": "s06-p01", "text": "The higher- and moderate-salinity source areas were reported at ECe >2200 and about 1100 mS/m, respectively. Craig et al. measured natural source soils by saturated-paste extract at depths of 50–600 mm; Table 2 reports EC variation by site, year and soil layer. These provenance comparisons are not continuous root-zone exposures for individual plants.", "source_ids": [ "S1" ], "claim_type": "source_fact" }, { "id": "s06-p02", "text": "Ravensthorpe-source seedlings had 100% survival after 12 weeks of saline irrigation at final ECw 9500 mS/m; Figure 5 separately reports shoot biomass.", "source_ids": [ "S1" ], "claim_type": "source_fact" }, { "id": "s06-p03", "text": "eHALOPH’s maximum-salinity field lists 9.5 dS/m and cites Craig et al. (1990). This converts to 950 mS/m, one-tenth of the paper’s final irrigation-water ECw of 9500 mS/m. The database does not identify the material or endpoint represented by its field, and the unit or transcription discrepancy remains unresolved.", "source_ids": [ "S3" ], "claim_type": "source_fact" } ] }, { "id": "s07", "title": "Reported mechanisms and ecological adaptations", "paragraphs": [ { "id": "s07-p01", "text": "Seedlings from higher- and moderate-salinity provenances differed in leaf sodium accumulation, indicating variation among sources. Survival and biomass after 12 weeks are separate endpoints and do not establish a whole-life-cycle tolerance mechanism.", "source_ids": [ "S1", "S2", "S4" ], "claim_type": "project_synthesis" } ] }, { "id": "s08", "title": "Conclusions and evidence gaps", "paragraphs": [ { "id": "s08-p01", "text": "Salt-lake-margin records and Craig et al.’s provenance experiment support an association with Western Australian saltlands. Ravensthorpe-source seedlings all survived salt-only irrigation at final ECw 9500 mS/m, and Figure 5 separately reports shoot biomass. eHALOPH’s 9.5 dS/m converts to 950 mS/m, tenfold lower than the paper’s reading; the reason is unresolved.", "source_ids": [ "S1", "S2", "S3", "S4" ], "claim_type": "project_synthesis" } ] } ] }, "tolerance_evidence": [ { "id": "M01", "source_ids": [ "S1" ], "description": { "evidence_type": "Comparison of source-soil ECe for higher- and moderate-salinity Acacia redolens provenances", "material": "Natural Acacia redolens provenances, including Ravensthorpe; not a root-zone treatment", "salt_metric": "Mixed salts in natural source soils", "value_and_unit": "Higher-salinity provenance: ECe >2200 mS/m; moderate-salinity provenance: about 1100 mS/m", "medium_and_exposure": "Western Australian provenance soils measured by saturated-paste extract; full survey sampled 50–600 mm, species-specific depth details unavailable", "life_stage": "Source-site context and seed provenance", "duration": "At collection; no treatment exposure", "endpoint": "Comparison of source-soil salinity; later seedling ion accumulation and survival were separate endpoints", "result": "The paper compared tissue-ion accumulation among seedling provenances; upper leaves of higher-salinity-source A. redolens and A. patagiata contained less Na than those from corresponding moderate-salinity sources. This is a provenance difference and does not by itself establish a genetic mechanism.", "limitations": "ECe refers to provenance soils, not a treated root zone. The survey sampled 50–600 mm, and Table 2 reports values by site, year and depth; the higher/moderate summary values are not assigned to a particular depth for this species and are not converted to NaCl treatment." } }, { "id": "M02", "source_ids": [ "S1" ], "description": { "evidence_type": "12-week Ravensthorpe-provenance seedling survival trial at ECw 9500 mS/m", "material": "Seedlings from natural saltland provenances of A. redolens, including Ravensthorpe", "salt_metric": "Mixed NaCl, MgSO₄ and CaCl₂ at a 16:3:1 molar ratio; not pure NaCl.", "value_and_unit": "Final irrigation-water ECw 9500 mS/m", "medium_and_exposure": "Potted seedlings received saline irrigation, increased by 100 mM weekly over 12 weeks to the final ECw. The saline solution was maintained with drainage flushing. Figure 5 separately reports shoot biomass.", "life_stage": "Seedlings", "duration": "12 weeks", "endpoint": "Survival", "result": "Under salt-only treatment, 100% of Ravensthorpe-source A. redolens survived at final ECw 9500 mS/m. Figure 5 separately reports shoot biomass for treatments and controls; survival and biomass are distinct endpoints.", "limitations": "Survival is not a growth threshold, and ECw is not NaCl molarity. The article also reports biomass, with responses differing among provenances and waterlogging conditions." } }, { "id": "M03", "source_ids": [ "S3" ], "description": { "evidence_type": "eHALOPH database maximum-salinity field", "material": "A. redolens record in the database; provenance unspecified", "salt_metric": "Not specified", "value_and_unit": "9.5 dS/m (eHALOPH value)", "medium_and_exposure": "Database maximum-salinity field; method and medium unspecified", "life_stage": "Unspecified", "duration": "Unspecified", "endpoint": "Database maximum-salinity field", "result": "eHALOPH lists 9.5 dS/m, equivalent to 950 mS/m; Craig et al. report final irrigation-water ECw of 9500 mS/m, a tenfold difference. The database does not specify the material or endpoint represented by its field, and the discrepancy may reflect units or transcription, but its cause cannot be determined.", "limitations": "The database does not identify the material, medium or endpoint underlying its value. The 9.5 dS/m entry converts to 950 mS/m, tenfold below the paper’s ECw of 9500 mS/m; available sources do not resolve a possible unit or transcription error, and the field is not an independent experiment." } } ], "database_records": [ { "name_original": "ehaloph", "display_name": "eHALOPH", "record_id": "12002", "verification_level": "archived_synthesis", "support_scope": "eHALOPH species entry 12002 lists maximum salinity 9.5 dS/m, marks the genotype field “Yes,” and cites Craig et al. (1990). The paper reports source-soil ECe of 1,000–4,800 mS/m and final irrigation-water ECw of 9,500 mS/m; 9.5 dS/m converts to 950 mS/m, tenfold below the final ECw. The database does not identify the material or endpoint represented by its field, so the discrepancy remains unresolved; the catalogue field is not independent evidence.", "source_ids": [ "S3" ] }, { "name_original": "floraveg", "display_name": "FloraVeg.EU", "record_id": "baseline row 14", "verification_level": "local_original", "support_scope": "FloraVeg candidate row 14 did not match this species, so no saline/brackish EUNIS habitat is linked; the European database also does not cover Western Australia.", "source_ids": [ "S6" ] } ], "sources": [ { "id": "S1", "citation_original": "Craig, G.F., D.T. Bell & C.A. Atkins. 1990. Response to salt and waterlogging stress of 10 taxa of Acacia selected from naturally saline areas of Western Australia. Australian Journal of Botany 38(6):619–630. DOI:10.1071/BT9900619", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1071/BT9900619", "additional_urls": [], "source_kind": "primary_experiment", "verification_level": "local_original", "checked_at": "2026-10-04" }, { "id": "S2", "citation_original": "Cowan & Maslin, WorldWideWattle / Flora of Australia species fact sheet: Acacia redolens", "url": "https://apps.lucidcentral.org/wattle/text/entities/acacia_redolens.htm", "additional_urls": [], "source_kind": "authoritative_flora", "verification_level": "archived_synthesis", "checked_at": "2026-09-29" }, { "id": "S3", "citation_original": "eHALOPH species record 12002", "url": "https://ehaloph.uc.pt/showplant/12002", "additional_urls": [], "source_kind": "database", "verification_level": "archived_synthesis", "checked_at": "2026-09-29" }, { "id": "S4", "citation_original": "Acacia redolens habitat summaries, Arizona State University Desert Legume Program", "url": "https://cales.arizona.edu/desertlegumeprogram/legume-taxa/acacia-redolens.html", "additional_urls": [], "source_kind": "authoritative_flora", "verification_level": "archived_synthesis", "checked_at": "2026-09-29" }, { "id": "S5", "citation_original": "Plants of the World Online (POWO), Kew Science. Acacia redolens Maslin.", "url": "https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:471301-1", "additional_urls": [], "source_kind": "taxonomic_authority", "verification_level": "authority_record", "checked_at": "2026-10-02" }, { "id": "S6", "citation_original": "FloraVeg.EU / Chytrý et al. (2020), EUNIS-ESy characteristic-species combinations, version 2021-06-01. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4812736.", "url": "https://files.ibot.cas.cz/cevs/downloads/floraveg/Characteristic-species-combinations-EUNIS-habitats-2021-06-01.xlsx", "additional_urls": [ "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4812736" ], "source_kind": "database", "verification_level": "local_original", "checked_at": "2026-10-02" } ] } }