Acacia deanei

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Acacia deanei

Description

Small, unarmed tree or shrub to 6 m. Branchlets slightly ribbed and as the young shoots and inflorescences with a yellowish indumentum of dense appressed hairs. Leaves bipinnate, rachis and pinnae with moderate to dense appressed indumentum, rachis 3-5.5 cm, petiole 1-1.5 cm, rachis glands at or slightly below the junction of the pinnae, thickly rimmed, 1 or 2 extra glands occasion- all} between the junctions; Inflorescences consisting of 20-25-flowered heads, aggregated into 4- 14 cm panicles.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, Australasia: New South Wales (New South Wales present), Papua New Guinea, S inland Queensland present
Australia (S inland Queensland, New South Wales). In Malesia introduced and cultivated as an ornamental in Papua New Guinea.

Citation

Verdc. 1979: Manual New Guin. Legum.: 166