Acacia dealbata |
Acacia retinodes |
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blue wattle, silver wattle |
ever blooming acacia, ever-blooming wattle, swamp wattle, water wattle |
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Habit | Shrubs or trees, erect, to 30 m. Twigs dark purplish brown to black, slightly flexuous, ridged, pruinose, densely puberulent. | Shrubs or small trees, erect, to 10 m, often spreading by root suckers. |
Twigs | reddish brown, not flexuous, ridged, glabrous. |
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Leaves | compound, 80–170 mm; petiole 8–22 mm, densely puberulent, gland present, below proximalmost pinna pair, 0.5–1 mm diam., puberulent; rachis gland between most pinna pairs; pinnae 6–30 pairs, 15–55 mm, 2–7 mm between pinna pairs; leaflets 15–70 pairs per pinna, blades linear, 2–5 × 0.4–0.8 mm, base cuneate, apex obtuse to acute, not apiculate, surfaces densely puberulent. |
phyllodic; phyllode flat, slightly falcate, linear-lanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, 30–200 × 3–14 mm, venation pinnate, midvein medial, minor veins not obvious, apex acuminate, apiculate, surfaces glabrous; gland 1, 1–10 mm distal to pulvinus (not obvious, not disciform); pulvinus 1–3 mm. |
Inflorescences | globose heads, densely flowered, 6–9 mm diam., in axillary pseudoracemes of 11–30 heads or terminal pseudopanicles of 1–15 pseudoracemes. |
globose heads, densely flowered, 5–7 mm diam., in solitary pseudoracemes of 5–9 heads in leaf axils. |
Peduncles | 2–6 mm. |
2–5 mm. |
Flowers | 5-merous, pale yellow to cream; calyx 0.6–1.1 mm; corolla 1.4–2 mm; filaments 3.5–4.5 mm; ovary glabrous. |
5-merous, pale yellow to cream; calyx 0.5–0.9 mm; corolla 1.2–1.7 mm; filaments 2.5–3.5 mm; ovary glabrous. |
Legumes | flattened, oblong, 20–110 × 6–14 mm, constricted between some seeds. |
flattened, linear, 40–160 × 4–7 mm, slightly constricted between seeds. |
Seeds | aril light yellow, obovate, 2–3 mm, forming cap on seed. |
aril light yellow, nearly encircling seed. |
2n | = 26. |
= 26. |
Acacia dealbata |
Acacia retinodes |
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Phenology | Flowering winter, early spring. | Flowering year-round. |
Habitat | Disturbed areas. | Disturbed coastal habitats. |
Elevation | 0–300 m. (0–1000 ft.) | 0–600 m. (0–2000 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; se Australia [Introduced in North America; introduced also in s South America]
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CA; FL; se Australia [Introduced in North America]
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Discussion | Acacia dealbata is known from Butte, Los Angeles, Marin, Monterey, Napa, Riverside, Sacramento, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Acacia retinodes is known from Los Angeles, Marin, Orange, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara counties in California, and from Glades and Monroe counties in Florida. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Caesalpinioideae (Mimosoid clade) > Acacia | Fabaceae > subfam. Caesalpinioideae (Mimosoid clade) > Acacia |
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Name authority | Link: Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 2: 445. (1822) | Schlechtendal: Linnaea 20: 664. (1847) |
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