Acacia cowaniana Maslin

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Acacia

Characteristics

Resinous shrub or tree normally to 5 m tall. Branchlets glabrous or sparsely antrorsely puberulous with white or golden hairs; yellow (? resin) lines or irregular tubercles flanking the obscure ribs. Phyllodes patent to inclined, narrowly linear, mostly incurved, (2–) 3–5 cm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, l: w ratio = 10–46, uncinate to subuncinate, rostellate, green, sometimes golden or white appressed-puberulous on some nerves, obscurely 3–7-nerved; gland basal. Inflorescences normally 2-headed racemes; raceme axes 2–3 mm long; peduncles 5–7 mm long, sparsely to moderately appressed-puberulous with white or golden hairs; heads globular, c. 20-flowered, cream to pale lemon-yellow. Flowers 5-merous; calyx membranous; sepals c. ½-united. Pods linear, to 8 cm long, 4.5–6 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, villous or puberulous, ±glabrescent. Seeds (few seen) longitudinal to longitudinally oblique, oblong-elliptic to oblong-ovate, c. 3.5 mm long, sometimes to 5 mm long; aril clavate.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
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Mature height (meter) 5.0
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Environment

Granite outcrops.
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Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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

Acacia cowaniana world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:939611-1
WFO ID wfo-0000202121
COL ID 8P33
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Acacia cowaniana Racosperma cowanianum