Acacia

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Acacia

Description

Unarmed shrub or tree up to 24 m high. Branchlets angular, as the foliage and inflorescences densely appressed puberulous. Leaves bipinnate, petiole with one gland and numerous raised glands along the adaxial side of the rachis; Inflorescences composed of pedunculate flower- glomerules, c. 5-8 mm in diameter, aggregated in racemes or panicles axillary to the upper leaves. Seeds black, smooth, elliptic, 5 by 3.5 mm, flattened.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, Australasia: New South Wales (New South Wales present); Victoria (Victoria present)
Australia (New South Wales, Victoria); in Malesia introduced as an ornamental, but not naturalized.

Notes

This is the Australian 'Black Wattle'. Most specimens were formerly named A. decurrens var. mollis Benth.

Citation

Verdc. 1979: Manual New Guin. Leg.: 170