Acacia microneura Meisn.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Acacia

Characteristics

Shrub with young branchlets resinous-angled, white appressed-puberulous between angles. Phyllodes ascending, linear, straight to incurved or ±sigmoid, flat to slightly compressed-rhombic in section, 4–11 cm long, 1–2 mm wide, uncinate-acute, appressed-puberulous basally and between nerves, with central nerve and marginal nerves broader and more raised than the c. 3 finer closely parallel nerves in between. Inflorescences simple, 1 or 2 per node; peduncles 0–1 mm long, appressed-puberulous; heads globular to broadly ellipsoid or obloid, 5.5–6 mm long, 5.5 mm diameter, ±20-flowered; bracteoles spathulate, puberulous. Flowers 4-merous; sepals at least ¾-united. Pods and seeds not seen.
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Grows in sand in heath.
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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 microneura world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:470899-1
WFO ID wfo-0001054055
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Synonyms

Acacia microneura