Acacia cochlocarpa subsp. cochlocarpa
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General Plant Info
Acacia cochlocarpa subsp. cochlocarpa, also called "Spiral Fruited Wattle", is a sprawling, low growing, glabrous shrub to 70 cm tall and up to 3 m wide, with slightly flexuose branchlets.
Acacia cochlocarpa subsp. cochlocarpa, was declared as Rare Flora in November 1997 under the Western Australian Wildlife Conservation Act 1950 and was ranked as Critically Endangered (CR) in November 1998 under World Conservation Union (IUCN 1994) Red List criterion B1+2c.
There are only 135 mature plants known in three wild populations (one extinct, one in decline and one moderately healthy). All populations are affected by fragmentation and continuing degradation of habitat. A further 535 plants are known from two translocated populations in a Nature Reserve.
Geographic distribution
Acacia cochlocarpa subsp. cochlocarpa is restricted to Watheroo with an early collection West of Moora, W.A. It is known from a narrow 700 m length of highly disturbed road reserve and private property near Watheroo in the Moora Shire.
Identification
Phyllodes are incurved and erect,(3- ) 4–7.5 cm long, 4–6 mm wide, with acute apex, glabrous, 5–7-nerved with central nerve equidistant from margins. They are linear to narrowly elliptic.
Stipules caducous.
Inflorescence golden flower-heads are obloid to short-cylindrical, 7- 10 mm long (dry); bracteoles obovate, 0.7–0.8 mm long, obtuse.
Pods are glabrous and tightly coiled, up to 4 mm wide.
Alkaloid content
Extraction
Other uses
Cultivation
Grows in brown sand or clayey sand with laterite. Survives in disturbed roadside situations.
Plants occur as two close populations in disturbed open low scrub on road reserve and on private property. The subspecies grows in association with Hakea scoparia, Allocasuarina campestris, and a number of other Acacia species.
Suppliers
Seed has been collected from all populations and placed in long term storage at DEC’s Threatened Flora Seed Centre (TFSC)
Links
http://www.worldwidewattle.com/speciesgallery/cochlocarpa.php
