Acacia spondylophylla F.Muell.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Acacia

Characteristics

Shrub to 2 m high, spreading, viscid. Branchlets puberulous. Stipules 1-1.5 mm long, viscid. Phyllodes 8-12 (-14) per whorl, straight or recurved towards apex, slightly flattened, 6-10 mm long, less than 1 mm wide, shortly mucronate, shortly puberulous, with an obscure impressed nerve on upper surface and both surfaces obscurely ribbed when dry. Peduncles 10-25 mm long, sparsely pilose, viscid. Heads 25-40-flowered. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 0.8-1.2 mm long, lobed to c. half way, membranous, glabrous, with lobes spathulate or triangular; corolla lobes smooth, glabrous or sparsely hairy. Pods linear, curved, 20-40 mm long, 6-8 mm wide, with nerve-like margins, coriaceous, viscid. Seeds transverse, 3.5-4 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) 2.0
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Root diameter (meter) -
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Grows in shallow, sandy or rocky soil.
Light -
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses invertebrate food
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 -

Images

Acacia spondylophylla unspecified picture

Distribution

Acacia spondylophylla world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:471530-1
WFO ID wfo-0000203132
COL ID 8Q3V
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Acacia spondylophylla Racosperma spondylophyllum