Acacia perryi Pedley

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Acacia

Characteristics

Shrub to 1.5 m high. Branchlets pubescent with fine spreading to erect or retrorse white hairs, viscid. Stipules 2-3 mm long, glabrous, occasionally with tuft of hairs near base. Phyllodes in whorls of 10-15, spreading, flattened, straight or ±incurved in lower half and recurved at apex, 8-15 mm long, with erect or antrorse hairs and an impressed nerve above, obscurely ribbed when dry; mucro 0.4-1.2 mm long. Peduncles 5-20 mm long, sparsely hairy. Heads 20-35-flowered. Flowers 5-or 6-merous; calyx narrowly obconical, 0.9-1.5 mm long, ribbed; calyx lobes incurved, linear, thick, glabrous or with hairy margins; corolla lobes striate, hairy. Pods sessile, straight, 35-70 mm long, 5-6 mm wide, glabrous; margins slightly thickened. Seeds longitudinal, c. 3 mm long; pleurogram open.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 1.5
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Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Grows on rocky hillsides with spinifex and open woodland.
Light -
Soil humidity -
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Soil acidity -
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 21
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 26
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment soaking
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -

Distribution

Acacia perryi world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:471127-1
WFO ID wfo-0000203153
COL ID 8PTR
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Racosperma perryi Acacia perryi