Acacia spectabilis

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Acacia spectabilis

Description

Unarmed shrub to c. 5 m high. Branchlets glaucous, with ± dense indumentum of spreading hairs up to 0.2 mm, glabrescent. Leaves bipinnate, with indumentum as the branchlets; Inflorescences composed of flower-heads of 15-20 flowers, aggregated into long axillary racemes or rarely in terminal panicles. Seeds longitudinal, c. 6 by 3.5 mm, pleurogram constricted at the hilar end, but open;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, Australasia: New South Wales (New South Wales present), S Queensland present, mountain regions of W Java cultivated
Australia (S Queensland, New South Wales); in Malesia sometimes planted in ti e mountain regions of W Java.

Citation

Backer & Bakh. f. 1963 – In: Fl. Java: 558
Benth. 1875 – In: Trans. Linn. Soc.: 496
Bailey 1883: Syn. Qld. Fl.: 144
Pedley 1979 – In: Austrobaileya: 298
Benth. 1864 – In: Fl. Austral.: 413