Acacia kingiana Maiden & Blakely

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Acacia

Characteristics

Bushy shrub 2–3 m tall. Branchlets tomentose. Phyllodes inequilaterally narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate, straight to shallowly recurved, c. 10 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, obtuse and excentrically mucronulate, coriaceous, with 2 or 3 distant tomentulose main nerves and with ±raised, anastomosing secondary nerves. Inflorescences 1-headed racemes; raceme axes 1.5–2 mm long, white-tomentulose; peduncles 3.5–4 mm long, tomentulose, with a basal glabrous round bract and an amorphous glandular mass opposite; heads globular, 4–4.5 mm diam., densely 30–40-flowered, presumably golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals c. ⅔-united. Pods not seen.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 2.0 - 3.0
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Environment

Grows in gravelly soil in Wandoo forest.
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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 kingiana world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:470653-1
WFO ID wfo-0000202172
COL ID 8PGP
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Racosperma kingianum Acacia kingiana