Acacia carnosula Maslin

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Acacia

Characteristics

Spreading, domed or ±straggly shrub 0.5–1.5 m tall. Branchlets glabrous, roughened by bark breaking into irregular or rectangular flakes. Phyllodes ascending to erect, obovate to oblanceolate, flat, 5–10 mm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, rounded-obtuse, thick and subfleshy, drying rugulose, glabrous; abaxial margin 1-nerved; other nerves obscure; gland inconspicuous, 2–4.5 mm above base. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 per axil; peduncles 4–6 (–8) mm long, glabrous; heads globular, 3–3.5 mm diam., 9–11-flowered, light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free, broadly spathulate. Pods (dehisced valves) linear, not or slightly constricted between seeds, to 4 cm long, 2.5–3.5 mm wide, chartaceous, dark red-brown, glabrous. Seeds (immature) longitudinal.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.5 - 1.5
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Environment

Grows in calcareous sand, loamy sand or clay loam over limestone pavement at shallow depth, in open shrub or tree 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 carnosula world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1008237-1
WFO ID wfo-0000201982
COL ID 8NY3
BDTFX ID -
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Acacia carnosula Racosperma carnosulum