Acacia retinodes |
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ever blooming acacia, ever-blooming wattle, swamp wattle, water wattle |
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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 |
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Phenology | Flowering year-round. |
Habitat | Disturbed coastal habitats. |
Elevation | 0–600 m. [0–2000 ft.] |
Distribution |
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. |
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Name authority | Schlechtendal: Linnaea 20: 664. (1847) |
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