Acacia gardneri Maiden & Blakely

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Acacia

Characteristics

Glabrous shrub or tree to c. 6 m tall. Bark smooth, brown, pruinose. Branchlets compressed terete, light brown, ±pruinose. Phyllodes obliquely narrowly elliptic, abruptly narrowed at base, 5–12 cm long, 20–30 mm wide, with curved upper margin and ±straight to curved lower margin, slightly pruinose, with 3 or 4 very prominent main nerves (lower 2 concurrent near base); minor nerves 2 per mm, anastomosing with small reticulations in larger nerve-islands; gland 1, basal, to 0.5 mm above pulvinus. Spikes 4–6 cm long, pale yellow. Flowers loosely arranged, 5-merous; calyx 0.4–0.5 mm long, dissected to ⅙–⅕ of length, glabrous; corolla c. 1.8 mm long, dissected to base, glabrous; ovary glabrous. Pods linear, raised over and constricted between seeds, ±twisted, 5–8 cm long, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, ±pruinose. Seeds longitudinal, narrowly oblong-elliptic, 4–4.5 mm long, dark brown; pleurogram without halo; areole elongated, open, depressed.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 6.0
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Environment

Found on seasonally inundated, sandstone flats overlain by shallow skeletal alluvium, dissected by outcropping ridges of massive sandstone, or in sandy soil among quartzite rocks on the banks of streams.
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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 gardneri world distribution map, present in Australia

Conservation status

Acacia gardneri threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:470385-1
WFO ID wfo-0000202517
COL ID 64BZ4
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INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Acacia gardneri Racosperma gardneri