Acacia botrydion Maslin

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Acacia

Characteristics

Craggy intricate shrub 0.5–1.3 m tall. Branches minutely puberulous, divided into short, divaricate, coarsely pungent branchlets. Phyllodes elliptic to widely elliptic, (6–) 9–15 mm long, 4–12 mm wide, ±undulate and patent, acute, mucronate, somewhat pungent, green to subglaucous, minutely puberulous, 1-nerved; lateral nerves obscure. Inflorescences racemose in upper axils, 1 or 2 per axil, sometimes paniculate due to phyllode suppression; raceme axes 5–20 mm long, sparsely minutely puberulous; peduncles twinned, c. 10 mm long, red-brown, sparsely minutely puberulous; heads globular, 30–40-flowered, light golden. Flowers 5‑merous; sepals free, ⅔ length of petals, linear-spathulate. Pods strongly arcuate to 1½-coiled, to 4 cm long (expanded length), c. 4 mm wide, thinly crustaceous, red-brown, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic, 3–4 mm long, turgid, dull, brown, arillate.
Life form perennial
Growth form
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
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Mature height (meter) 0.5 - 1.3
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Grows on hills in lateritic soil in mallee.
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Usage

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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 botrydion world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:899060-1
WFO ID wfo-0000201942
COL ID 8NW7
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Acacia botrydion Racosperma botrydion