Acacia oligoneura F.Muell.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Acacia

Characteristics

Shrub to 2 m high, many-stemmed, resinous. Branchlets angular, flattened towards apices, greenish yellow or yellow to pale brown, glabrous, often scurfy and with numerous to scattered reddish brown to clear granules. Phyllodes very narrowly oblanceolate (-elliptic), straight or slightly curved, (6–) 10–16 (–19) cm long, (7–) 8.5–16 (–20) mm wide, chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, light olive-green, glabrous, with yellowish nerves, with lower 2 of the 3 prominent longitudinal veins confluent near base; other main vein often confluent with upper margin; veins 2–4 (–5) per mm, moderately to strongly anastomosing; gland basal, 0–4 mm above pulvinus. Peduncles 2.5–8 mm long. Spikes 1–3 in axils, 1–4.2 cm long, light golden or bright yellow. Flowers 5-merous; calyx cupular, membranous, 0.5–0.7 mm long, dissected to ⅕–½, glabrous or with reddish brown glandular hairs (granules) towards sepal apices; corolla 1–1.5 mm long, dissected to ½ or more. Pods narrowly oblanceolate-linear, basally narrowed, flat, 5–8.5 cm long, 4–7.5 mm wide, woody, prominently obliquely to longitudinally nerved, glabrous, opening elastically from hooked apex. Seeds oblique, ±elliptic or oblong, 4.7–5.5 mm long, mid-brown; funicle-aril narrowly conical.
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Somewhat open shrub 1-4 m high. Branchlets thick, angled at extremities, pruinose, glabrous. Phyllodes on obvious stem-projections, with lower edge often continuous and forming very narrow wings with branchlets, elliptic to obovate, 6-11 cm long, 30-70 mm wide, oblique at base, ±undulate, obtuse to subacute, coriaceous, glaucous, glabrous, 1-nerved per face, finely penninerved; gland 2-6 cm above pulvinus. Inflorescences racemose; raceme axes 3-8 (-15) cm long, appressed-puberulous with golden hairs to glabrous; peduncles 3-7 mm long, with indumentum as on raceme axes; heads obloid to globular, 35-55-flowered, golden; bracteoles golden-fimbriolate. Flowers 5-merous; calyx gamosepalous. Pods narrowly oblong, ±rounded over seeds, to 14 cm long but often shorter, c. 1 cm wide, firmly chartaceous, pruinose, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to elliptic, 5-6 mm long, slightly shiny, black; funicle encircling seed in single or double fold, dark red-brown; aril clavate.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.5 - 3.0
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Environment

It grows in brown gravelly loam on the side of a laterite breakaway in Eucalyptus low woodland.
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Grows in woodland, on rocky slopes, in laterite or red clay over basalt (Mitchell Plateau).
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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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 oligoneura world distribution map, present in Australia

Conservation status

Acacia oligoneura threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:471031-1
WFO ID wfo-0000202770
COL ID 8PRL
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Acacia oligoneura Racosperma oligoneurum