Difference between revisions of "Acacia kalgoorliensis"

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General Plant Info

Acacia kalgoorliensis (R.S.Cowan & Maslin, Nuytsia 10: 215, 1995) also known as Kalgoorlie Wattle native to Western Australia it has dense, rounded multistemmed shrub 1–3 m high. Branchlets subappressed puberulous, the hairs white with red resin-hairlets intermixed. Phyllodes erect, straight, terete, 3–7 cm long, 1.5 mm diam., tapering into long, hard, dark, straight, sharply pungent tip, rigid, glabrous except pulvinus crispate-sericeous, with numerous slightly raised, closely parallel nerves; stomata evident between the nerves; glands normally 2. Inflorescences simple, 2 per axil; peduncles usually 0.5–1.5 mm long, glabrous or with scattered red resin-hairlets; heads globular to widely ellipsoid, 3–6 mm diam., 15–22-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods linear, raised over and constricted between seeds, shallowly curved, to 7.5 cm long, 3 mm wide, chartaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, narrowly elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 4-4.5 mm long, dull, dark brown; aril terminal.

Geographic distribution

Occurs in the Kalgoorlie and Marvel Loch (c. 200 km WSW of Kalgoorlie) areas with a variant scattered c. 320- 560 km NW of Kalgoorlie (near Wubin and Noongal and Yuinmery Stns), W.A. Grows in rocky loam, clay and clay loam on low hills in eucalypt woodland. The variant grows in sandy clay and loam over calcrete in eucalypt open woodland and Acacia tall shrubland.

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References

R.S.Cowan & Maslin (1995) Nuytsia 10: 215.

World Wide Wattle, Acacia kalgoorliensis(2013). Retrived from: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/speciesgallery/kalgoorliensis.php

FloraBase, Acacia kalgoorliensis R.S.Cowan & Maslin. Retrived from: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/14610