Acacia alleniana Maiden

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Acacia

Characteristics

Spindly open shrub or tree to 5 m high; branches sometimes pendulous. Branchlets slender, with scattered lenticels, dark red-brown, glabrous. Phyllodes filiform, terete to quadrangular, 12–24 cm long, 0.5–0.8 mm wide, acute, not rigid, longitudinally sulcate when dry, puncticulate, glabrous; veins not evident; gland obscure, 3–15 mm above pulvinus; pulvinus prominent, 1–2 mm long. Inflorescences simple; peduncles 2–6 per axil, 6–13 mm long, slender, glabrous; basal bract persistent; heads globular, c. 35-flowered, yellow; bracteoles exserted in buds. Flowers mostly 5-merous; sepals free, linear-spathulate. Pods linear, prominently raised over seeds alternately on each side, to 15 cm long, 3.5–5 mm wide, very thinly coriaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to elliptic, 4–5.5 mm long, 2–2.5 mm wide, turgid, ridged at periphery, dull, mid-brown, dark coloured bordering pleurogram; funicle filiform, scarcely arillate.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 5.0
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Grows in skeletal soil in hilly sandstone country.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 21
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 26
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Germination treatment soaking
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Images

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Distribution

Acacia alleniana world distribution map, present in Australia

Conservation status

Acacia alleniana threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:469679-1
WFO ID wfo-0000201402
COL ID 8NR7
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Acacia alleniana Racosperma allenianum