Acacia zatrichota A.S.George

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Acacia

Characteristics

Shrub to 1.5 m high, erect. Branchlets densely pilose with white hairs. Stipules spreading, subulate, 0.5–2.8 mm long, brown. Phyllodes 16–20 per whorl, erect, straight to incurved, terete, 8–18 mm long, with an oblique mucro 0.2–0.4 mm long, pilose with spreading yellowish hairs, obscurely 1-grooved adaxially. Peduncles 23–30 mm long, sparsely pilose with white hairs. Heads c. 30-flowered. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 0.7–0.8 mm long; calyx lobes short, narrow, smooth, glabrous; corolla glabrous except for hirsute smooth to faintly striate lobes. Pods sessile, linear, not viscid, not seen mature. Seeds (not seen mature) 3–6 per pod, ?longitudinal.
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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Flower color
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Environment

Grows in dissected sandstone, with open woodland or shrubland usually with Triodia.
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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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Productivity -

Distribution

Acacia zatrichota world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1010668-1
WFO ID wfo-0000203152
COL ID 64BSH
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Acacia zatrichota Racosperma zatrichotum