Acacia diaphana R.S.Cowan & Maslin

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Acacia

Characteristics

Bushy, spreading, shrub 1.5–3 m tall. Branchlets angular at apices, becoming terete, resin-ribbed, glabrous or minutely white appressed-puberulous. Phyllodes ascending, linear, straight to shallowly incurved, (3–) 4–6.5 (–7) cm long, 2.5–4 mm wide, attenuate basally, obtuse with minute, blunt, slightly excentric mucro, thinly coriaceous, glabrous; midrib and marginal nerves obviously resinous (the resin often in obvious droplets) and rarely with a few scattered penninerves; gland basal. Inflorescences (1–) 2–6-headed racemes; raceme axes 2–8 mm long, densely appressed white-puberulous, resinous; peduncles 2–5 mm long, densely appressed white-puberulous, resinous; heads globular, 3.5–4.5 mm diam., 15–20-flowered, golden, resinous; bracteoles spathulate. Flowers 5-merous; perianth diaphanous; sepals free. Pods and seeds not seen.
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) 1.5 - 3.0
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Environment

Grows in clay or sandy loam in small to large wet or waterlogged depressions, often with Eucalyptus occidentalis.
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Usage

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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 diaphana world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1008291-1
WFO ID wfo-0000201979
COL ID 8P5C
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Acacia diaphana Racosperma diaphanum