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ever blooming acacia, ever-blooming wattle, swamp wattle, water wattle

Habit Shrubs or small trees, erect, to 10 m, often spreading by root suckers.
Twigs

reddish brown, not flexuous, ridged, glabrous.

Leaves

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, 5–7 mm diam., in solitary pseudoracemes of 5–9 heads in leaf axils.

Peduncles

2–5 mm.

Flowers

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, linear, 40–160 × 4–7 mm, slightly constricted between seeds.

Seeds

aril light yellow, nearly encircling seed.

2n

= 26.

Acacia retinodes

Phenology Flowering year-round.
Habitat Disturbed coastal habitats.
Elevation 0–600 m. [0–2000 ft.]
Distribution
from FNA
CA; FL; se Australia [Introduced in North America]
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Discussion

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.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Caesalpinioideae (Mimosoid clade) > Acacia
Sibling taxa
A. auriculiformis, A. baileyana, A. cultriformis, A. cyclops, A. dealbata, A. decurrens, A. longifolia, A. mearnsii, A. melanoxylon, A. paradoxa, A. pycnantha, A. redolens, A. saligna, A. verticillata
Name authority Schlechtendal: Linnaea 20: 664. (1847)
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