Acacia falcata

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Acacia falcata

Description

Unarmed, erect shrub or tree up to 4 m high. Branchlets with not very prominent yellowish rib. Inflorescences consisting of heads of 15-20 yellow flowers in axillary racemes. Seeds 2-2.2 by 0.8-1 mm, pleurogram closed, funicle running round the top of the seed to the base, then folded back and thickened to form a clavate aril on one side at the base.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, Australasia, mountain regions of Java present
Australia; in Malesia cultivated in the mountain regions of Java.

Citation

Benth. 1864 – In: Fl. Aust.: 361
Backer & Bakh. f. 1963 – In: Fl. Java: 560
Willd. 1875 – In: Trans. Linn. Soc.: 468
Pedley 1979 – In: Austrobaileya: 266