Acacia chrysochaeta Maslin

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Acacia

Characteristics

Shrub to 1.5 m tall, erect, spindly. Branchlets terete, brown, yellowish towards apices, finely nerved, densely tomentose. Phyllodes closely pressed to stems, linear, flat, 2–4.5 cm long, 2–3 (–5) mm wide, with curved 1–3 mm long apical seta, softly puberulous, with 1 prominent main nerve; minor nerves 4 per mm, parallel, not anastomosing; gland 1, basal, 1–1.5 mm above pulvinus. Peduncles 6–12 mm long. Spikes 2.5–3 cm long, dense. Flowers 5-or rarely 6-merous, markedly pale golden-(later white-) tomentose; calyx 1–1.3 mm long, dissected to ⅔ of length; corolla 1.5 mm long, dissected to ½–⅔ of length. Pods narrowly oblong, almost straight-sided, straight to shallowly curved, 4.5–6 cm long, 7–10 mm wide, densely golden-(later white-) tomentose, appearing greenish yellow. Seeds oblique, ±oblong, 4.5–5 mm long, black; pleurogram obscure, with pale halo.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.5
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Environment

Grows in eucalypt savannah with Annual Sorghum and in sandy alluvium besides watercourses.
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Usage

Uses -
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Therapeutic use -
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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 chrysochaeta world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:901319-1
WFO ID wfo-0000202666
COL ID 8NZ7
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Racosperma chrysochaetum Acacia chrysochaeta