Acacia dangarensis Tindale & Kodela

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Acacia

Characteristics

Tree to 10 m high. Bark smooth, grey, with base later corrugated and blackish. Branchlets terete with 4–6 ridges c. 0.2 mm high, and with numerous lenticels, glabrous. Young foliage-tips blackish brown, almost glabrous. Leaves green; petiole 0.7–4.7 cm long, glabrous or with sparse minute white hairs, with a gland just below lowest pinnae to median; rachis 1.5–6 cm long, with 1 (rarely 2) gland(s) at base of pinnae; interjugary glands absent; pinnae 2–6 pairs, 3–7.8 cm long; pinnules 14–30 pairs, often arranged alternately except towards apex, linear, (2–) 4–9 (–13.5) mm long, 0.25–0.4 mm wide, with 1 central nerve, ± glabrous, acute. Inflorescences mainly in axillary or terminal false-panicles. Peduncles 1–4 mm long, glabrous. Heads 12–26-flowered, golden. Pods ±straight, mostly straight-sided to barely constricted between seeds, 3–8 cm long, 5–7 mm wide, subcoriaceous (young), light brown to black, glabrous.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 10.0
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Environment

Grows in woodland on the basalt summit and rocky slopes; dominant or co-dominant with Eucalyptus moluccana and E. albens.
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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 dangarensis world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:960237-1
WFO ID wfo-0000201031
COL ID 8P49
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Acacia dangarensis Racosperma dangarense