Acacia dealbata |
Acacia saligna |
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blue wattle, silver wattle |
golden wreath wattle, orange 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, pendulous, to 6 m. Twigs bluish to purplish, slightly flexuous, slightly ridged, glabrous. |
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, straight to slightly curved, linear to narrowly elliptic, 70–250 × 6–25 mm, venation pinnate, midvein prominent, minor veins faint, apex narrowly acuminate, apiculate, surfaces glabrous; gland 1, 0–3 mm distal to pulvinus (obvious, disciform); pulvinus 1–3.5 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, 8–12 mm diam., in pseudoracemes of 2–10 heads, 5–40 mm, solitary in distal leaf axils. |
Peduncles | 2–6 mm. |
5–15 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, golden yellow; calyx 1–2 mm; corolla 2.6–3.4 mm; filaments 5–6 mm; ovary glabrous. |
Legumes | flattened, oblong, 20–110 × 6–14 mm, constricted between some seeds. |
flattened, linear, 80–140 × 5–8 mm, constricted between seeds. |
Seeds | aril light yellow, obovate, 2–3 mm, forming cap on seed. |
aril yellow, clavate, obovate, 2–3 mm, forming cap on seed. |
2n | = 26. |
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Acacia dealbata |
Acacia saligna |
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Phenology | Flowering winter, early spring. | Flowering fall–spring. |
Habitat | Disturbed areas. | Disturbed areas. |
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; NV; sw Australia [Introduced in North America] |
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 saligna is known from Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, and Ventura counties in California, Lee and Monroe counties in Florida, and Clark County in Nevada. (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 |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Mimosa saligna | |
Name authority | Link: Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 2: 445. (1822) | (Labillardière) H. L. Wendland: Comm. Acac. Aphyll., 26. (1820) |
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