Acacia mearnsii |
Acacia auriculiformis |
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| black wattle |
auri, blackwattle, Darwin black wattle, earleaf acacia, earpod wattle, northern black wattle, papuan wattle, tuhkehn pweimau |
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| Habit | Shrubs or small trees, erect, to 10 m. | Trees, erect, to 35 m. |
| Twigs | dark purplish brown to black, slightly flexuous, ridged, puberulent. |
gray to dark reddish brown, not flexuous, slightly ridged, glabrous. |
| Leaves | compound, 50–140 mm; petiole 5–30 mm, puberulent, gland present, below proximalmost pinna pair, 0.7–1.5 mm diam., puberulent; rachis glands scattered, with some between pinna pairs (at pinna pair nodes and internodes); pinnae 7–31 pairs, 15–70 mm, 3–7 mm between pinna pairs; leaflets 20–70 pairs per pinna, blades linear, 1.5–3.5 × 0.5–0.8 mm, base cuneate, apex obtuse, not apiculate, surfaces puberulent. |
phyllodic; phyllode flat, falcate, linear to narrowly elliptic, 100–200 × 12–28 mm, venation parallel, mostly with 3 prominent veins, minor veins prominent, apex narrowly obtuse, not apiculate, surfaces glabrous; gland 1, 0–3 mm distal to pulvinus; pulvinus 3–5 mm. |
| Inflorescences | globose heads, densely flowered, 5–9 mm diam., in axillary pseudoracemes of 20–35 heads or terminal pseudopanicles of 1–10 pseudoracemes. |
cylindrical, interrupted spikes, loosely flowered, 50–85 × 4–7 mm, solitary or in fascicles of 2 or 3 in leaf axils, rarely in pseudoracemes. |
| Peduncles | 4–9 mm. |
5–10 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, light golden yellow; calyx 0.9–1.3 mm; corolla 1.6–2.4 mm; filaments 2.5–3.5 mm; ovary pubescent. |
| Legumes | flattened, linear, 30–140 × 4–8 mm, slightly constricted between seeds. |
flattened, oblong, 30–160 × 8–18 mm, not constricted between seeds. |
| Seeds | aril light yellow, obovate, 1–2 mm, forming cap on seed. |
aril light yellow, encircling seed. |
| 2n | = 26. |
= 26. |
Acacia mearnsii |
Acacia auriculiformis |
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| Phenology | Flowering spring, early summer. | Flowering summer, fall. |
| Habitat | Disturbed areas. | Disturbed areas. |
| Elevation | 0–400 m. [0–1300 ft.] | 0–20 m. [0–70 ft.] |
| Distribution |
CA; se Australia [Introduced in North America] |
FL; Pacific Islands (Kei Islands, New Guinea); n Australia [Introduced in North America]
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| Discussion | Acacia mearnsii is known from Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, and Santa Barbara counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Acacia auriculiformis is known from Collier, Martin, and Miami-Dade counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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| Name authority | De Wildeman: Pl. Bequaert. 3: 61. (1925) — (as mearnsi) | A. Cunningham ex Bentham: London J. Bot. 1: 377. (1842) — (as auriculaeformis) |
| Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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