Vachellia suberosa (a.Cunn. ex Benth.) Kodela

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Vachellia

Characteristics

Slender shrub or tree to 14 m high; canopy conical or columnar; branches short, horizontal and sometimes drooping. Bark hard, corky, deeply fissured. Branchlets with longitudinal furrows, moderately to densely pubescent or pilose especially when young, becoming almost glabrous and often flaky. Stipular spines 2–13.5 mm long, often diminutive and appearing absent. Leaves up to 7 arising from nodes: petiole mostly 0.1–0.7 cm long, pubescent, mostly with a small gland at base of pinnae; rachis when present 0.1–0.2 (0.25) cm long; pinnae 1 (rarely 2) pairs, 0.3–1.8 cm long; pinnules 5–16 (–19) pairs, narrowly oblong to cultrate, sometimes oblong, elliptic or ±lanceolate, 1.1–4.5 mm long, 0.4–1.3 mm wide, pilose, the hairs often mainly on the margins and sparse on both surfaces. Inflorescences simple, solitary in axils; peduncles 2–10 mm long, with involucel of bracts c. ½ way or below; heads globular, 4–7-flowered, white to pale yellow. Pods flat except slightly raised over seeds, 4–20 cm long, 7–14 mm wide, coriaceous, pale olive, brown, grey or grey-green, longitudinally striate, becoming ±ridged, puberulous to pubescent or velvety. Seeds ±white-villous though areole often partly glabrous.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
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Mature height (meter) 14.0
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Environment

Grows often in grasslands, forming colonies of shrubs or trees which may be dominant or co-dominant with Bauhinia, sometimes in eucalypt woodland, frequently in grey or black, cracking, clayey soils or occasionally in sandy loam, on grassed mudflats, floodplains, in creek alluvium or on the fringe of downs in calcareous soil, sometimes in basaltic soils.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Foliage and pods eaten by stock.
Uses animal food forage
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Images

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Distribution

Vachellia suberosa world distribution map, present in Australia

Conservation status

Vachellia suberosa threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77079808-1
WFO ID wfo-0001278370
COL ID 7F8YK
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Synonyms

Acacia suberosa Vachellia suberosa