Acacia suaveolens

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Acacia suaveolens

Description

Unarmed slender little-branched shrub to 2.5 m high. Branchlets angular, glabrous, sometimes glaucous. Flowers whitish green, (4-)5-merous, bisexual. Seeds transverse, 6-7 by 3-4.5 mm, pleurogram closed;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, Australasia: Tasmania (Tasmania present), S Queensland present, mountain districts of W Java
Australia (S Queensland, Tasmania) ('Sweet-scented Wattle'); in Malesia introduced to mountain districts of W Java.

Citation

Backer & Bakh. f. 1963 – In: Fl. Java: 559
Pedley 1979 – In: Austrobaileya: 281
Benth. 1864 – In: Fl. Austral.: 369
Willd. 1875 – In: Trans. Linn. Soc.: 475