Acacia capillaris A.S.George

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Acacia

Characteristics

Shrub to 40 cm tall, erect. Branchlets pilose with white hairs to 1 mm long. Stipules setaceous, 3–4.5 mm long, spreading, yellowish. Phyllodes 14–18 per whorl, erect, somewhat flattened adaxially, 5–9 mm long, with an oblique to almost uncinate mucro 0.3–0.5 mm long, pilose with ascending to spreading white hairs. Peduncles 14–17 mm long, pilose with spreading white hairs that are more flexuose than on vegetative parts. Heads 15–20-flowered. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 0.8–1 mm long, divided for c. half length into triangular obtuse lobes, not or obscurely striate, glabrous; corolla lobes obscurely striate, pilose. Pods on stipe 2–3 mm long, linear, flat but raised over seeds, 1.5–4 cm long, 4–4.5 mm wide, brown, glabrous, not viscid; margins slightly thickened. Seeds 2–8 per pod, longitudinal, obliquely elliptic, c. 3.5 mm long, black; pleurogram open.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Spread -
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Mature height (meter) 0.4
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Environment

Grows in red-brown clay over granite, under Livistona palms near creek and on rocky slopes in savannah–spinifex association.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-11

Usage

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Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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

Acacia capillaris world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1010663-1
WFO ID wfo-0000203146
COL ID 8NXV
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Acacia capillaris Racosperma capillare