Acacia blaxellii Maslin

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Acacia

Characteristics

Spreading ±dense shrub 0.3–1.2 m tall. Branchlets tomentulose to densely puberulous (hairs patent to ±appressed). Phyllodes on raised stem-projections, ascending to erect, narrowly oblong to oblong-elliptic, straight, 1–2 (–2.5) cm long, 3–5 mm wide, l: w ratio = (3–) 4–6, obtuse, inconspicuously mucronulate, ±thick and fleshy, glabrous except pulvinus densely puberulous to tomentulose; midrib not prominent; lateral nerves absent or obscure; gland basal, obscure. Inflorescences rudimentary 2-headed racemes with axes less than 0.5 mm long; peduncles 7–22 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, 3.5–4.5 mm diam., 17–31-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free, sometimes absent. Pods variably undulate to circinnate or irregularly sigmoid, to 2 cm long, 3.5–4 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal to oblique, broadly elliptic, c. 2 mm long, glossy, black; hilum sublateral; aril linear-clavate, ⅔–¾ length of seed, white.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.3 - 1.2
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Environment

Grows in red-brown clay in flatland or in loam on low rocky hill-country, in shrub mallee or eucalypt woodland.
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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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Distribution

Acacia blaxellii world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1008235-1
WFO ID wfo-0000201978
COL ID 8NVV
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Acacia blaxellii Racosperma blaxellii