Acacia longifolia

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Acacia longifolia

Description

Unarmed shrub or tree, up to 10 m high. Branchlets acutely trigonous, older ones angular and ribbed, glabrous. Flowers yellow, fragrant, tetramerous, bisexual. Seeds longitudinal, funicle not folded, thickened almost from the base into a turbinate, almost cup-shaped aril at the base of the seed and sometimes nearly as large.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, Australasia: Tasmania (Tasmania present), extratropical E Australia present, mountain regions of W Java present
Australia (extratropical E Australia, Tasmania); in Malesia introduced, not naturalized, in the mountain regions of W Java.

Notes

According to Bentham (1864: 393) and Pedley [] not yet fully revised species.

Citation

Benth. 1864 – In: Fl. Austral.: 397
Backer & Bakh. f. 1963 – In: Fl. Java: 558
Willd. 1900: Qld. Fl.: 504
Willd. 1875 – In: Trans. Linn. Soc.: 487
Bailey 1883: Syn. Qld. Fl.: 140