Acacia linearifolia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Stringybark wattle | |
|---|---|
.jpg) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Caesalpinioideae |
| Clade: | Mimosoid clade |
| Genus: | Acacia |
| Species: | A. linearifolia |
| Binomial name | |
| Acacia linearifolia | |
 | |
| Occurrence data from AVH | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
| |
Acacia linearifolia, commonly known as stringybark wattle[2] or narrow-leaved wattle,[3] is a shrub or tree of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae that is endemic to eastern Australia.
The shrub or tree can grow to a height of 10 metres (33 ft)[2] with an erect to spreading habit and smooth grey to gery-brown bark that becomes fissured toward the base.[3] It has dark-reddish glabrous branches that are sometimes scurfy.[2] It has thin, smooth, glabrous, green to grey-green phyllodes with a narrowly linear shape. The phyllodes have a length of 6 to 12 cm (2.4 to 4.7 in) and a width of 2 to 5 mm (0.079 to 0.197 in). When it blooms between August and October[3] produces racemose inflorescences along an axes with a length of 2.5 to 6 cm (0.98 to 2.36 in). The spherical densely packed flower-heads contain 20 to 26 golden coloured flowers. The seed pods that follow are raised on opposite sides over alternate seeds and usually constricted between the seeds. The glabrous reddish-brown pods have a length of up to 12 cm (4.7 in) and a width of 5 to 7.5 mm (0.20 to 0.30 in) and are firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous. The oblong to elliptic shiny black seeds found within the pods have a length of 5 to 6 mm (0.20 to 0.24 in).[2]