Acacia baileyana

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Acacia baileyana

Description

Small, unarmed tree to 3 m high. Branchlets angular, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves bipinnate, glaucous, pinnae and leaflets approximate, leaves consequently making an impression of being entire, rachis 1-3 cm, petiole 0.1-0.2 cm, glabrous to tomentose, rachis glands at junction of pinnae, circular, concave, c. 1 mm in diameter; Inflorescences 6-12.5 cm long racemes with flower heads of 10-20 flowers, much longer than the leaves, the terminal racemes often aggregated into a panicle, rachis glabrous or subglabrous.

Distribution

Australasia: New South Wales (New South Wales present), mountain districts of Java
Australia (New South Wales), introduced in the mountain districts of Java, where it is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental; at c. 1500 m altitude.

Citation

F. Muell. 1888 – In: Icon. Austral. Acacia: 5
Maiden 1911 – In: For. Fl. N.S.W.: 8
Backer & Bakh. f. 1963 – In: Fl. Java: 558
Newman 1935 – In: Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W.: 428
Pedley 1979 – In: Austrobaileya: 301