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Acacia cyclops

coastal wattle, cyclops acacia, red-eyed wattle, western coastal wattle
Habit Shrubs or small trees, erect, to 6 m. Twigs light to dark reddish brown, slightly flexuous, ridged, glabrous.
Leaves

phyllodic;

phyllode flat, slightly falcate, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 40–95 × 4–15 mm, venation parallel, with 3–5 prominent veins, minor veins weakly reticulate, apex obtuse, obliquely apiculate, surfaces glabrous;

gland 0 or 1, 0–2 mm distal to pulvinus;

pulvinus 1–2 mm.
Inflorescences

globose heads, densely flowered, 6–9 mm diam., in short pseudoracemes of 2 heads solitary in leaf axils.
Peduncles

2–10 mm.
Flowers

5-merous, golden yellow;

calyx 0.9–1.3 mm;

corolla 1.3–2 mm;

filaments 2.5–3.5 mm;

ovary glabrous.
Legumes

elliptic in cross section, oblong, 50–130 × 9–17 mm, not constricted between seeds.
Seeds

aril orange to scarlet, enlarged, encircling seed in 2 folds.

Acacia cyclops
Phenology Flowering year-round.
Habitat Disturbed areas, coastal dunes.
Elevation 0–400 m. (0–1300 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; s Australia [Introduced in North America]
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Discussion

Acacia cyclops is known from Los Angeles, Marin, Orange, and San Diego counties.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Caesalpinioideae (Mimosoid clade) > Acacia
Sibling taxa
A. auriculiformis, A. baileyana, A. cultriformis, A. dealbata, A. decurrens, A. longifolia, A. mearnsii, A. melanoxylon, A. paradoxa, A. pycnantha, A. redolens, A. retinodes, A. saligna, A. verticillata
Name authority A. Cunningham ex G. Don: Gen. Hist. 2: 404. (1832) — name conserved
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