Acacia mearnsii |
Acacia saligna |
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black wattle |
golden wreath wattle, orange wattle |
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Habit | Shrubs or small trees, erect, to 10 m. Twigs dark purplish brown to black, slightly flexuous, ridged, puberulent. | Shrubs or small trees, pendulous, to 6 m. Twigs bluish to purplish, slightly 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, 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, 5–9 mm diam., in axillary pseudoracemes of 20–35 heads or terminal pseudopanicles of 1–10 pseudoracemes. |
globose heads, densely flowered, 8–12 mm diam., in pseudoracemes of 2–10 heads, 5–40 mm, solitary in distal leaf axils. |
Peduncles | 4–9 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, linear, 30–140 × 4–8 mm, slightly constricted between seeds. |
flattened, linear, 80–140 × 5–8 mm, constricted between seeds. |
Seeds | aril light yellow, obovate, 1–2 mm, forming cap on seed. |
aril yellow, clavate, obovate, 2–3 mm, forming cap on seed. |
2n | = 26. |
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Acacia mearnsii |
Acacia saligna |
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Phenology | Flowering spring, early summer. | Flowering fall–spring. |
Habitat | Disturbed areas. | Disturbed areas. |
Elevation | 0–400 m. (0–1300 ft.) | 0–600 m. (0–2000 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; se Australia [Introduced in North America] |
CA; FL; NV; sw Australia [Introduced in North America] |
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 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 | De Wildeman: Pl. Bequaert. 3: 61. (1925) — (as mearnsi) | (Labillardière) H. L. Wendland: Comm. Acac. Aphyll., 26. (1820) |
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