Acacia flocktoniae
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Caesalpinioideae |
| Clade: | Mimosoid clade |
| Genus: | Acacia |
| Species: | A. flocktoniae |
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Acacia flocktoniae, commonly known as Flockton wattle,[3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales, Australia. It is a sparingly branched, erect or spreading shrub with pendulous, reddish brown, glabrous branchlets, linear to narrowly lance-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, spherical heads of creamy-white or bright yellow flowers and broadly linear, firmly papery to thinly leathery leathery pods.
Acacia flocktoniae is a sparingly branched, weak, erect or spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 2–4 m (6 ft 7 in – 13 ft 1 in) and has somewhat pendulous, glabrous, reddish brown branchlets. Its phyllodes are rather crowded, ascending to erect, linear to narrowly lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 50–90 mm (2.0–3.5 in) long and 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) wide. There is a fine midrib and a gland up to 6 mm (0.24 in) above the base of the phyllode. The flowers are borne in spherical heads in racemes 20–60 mm (0.79–2.36 in) long on peduncles 3–5 mm (0.12–0.20 in) long, increasing to 8 mm (0.31 in) long in the fruiting stage. Each head has 20 to 30 densely arranged creamy white or bright yellow flowers. Flowering usually occurs from June to September, but has also been recorded in other months. The pods are broadly linear, straight to slightly curved, 40–110 mm (1.6–4.3 in) long and 5–7 mm (0.20–0.28 in) wide, firmly papery to thinly leathery and glabrous. The seeds are oblong, 4.5–5.5 mm (0.18–0.22 in) long a slightly shiny black with a club-shaped aril.[3][4][5][6]
Taxonomy
Acacia flocktoniae was first formally described in 1916 by Joseph Maiden in the Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales from specimens collected at Byrnes' Gap at Yerranderie by Richard Cambage in 1909.[7][8] The specific epithet (flocktoniae) honours Margaret Flockton.[4][8]