Acacia argyraea is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to tropical parts of northern Australia. It is a shrub or tree with smooth bark, narrowly elliptic to elliptic phyllodes, spikes of pale yellow flowers in axils, and linear to lance-shaped pods up to 85 cm (33 in) long.
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Caesalpinioideae |
| Clade: | Mimosoid clade |
| Genus: | Acacia |
| Species: | A. argyraea
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Racosperma argyraeum (Tindale) Pedley | |
Description
editAcacia argyraea is a shrub or tree with smooth grey to brown bark, that typically grows to a height of up to 3 m (9.8 ft) and is covered with silvery, silky hairs. Its branchlets are two- or three-angled, especially near their ends. The phyllodes are narrowly elliptical to elliptical, 40–80 mm (1.6–3.1 in) long, 15–35 mm (0.59–1.38 in) wide and leathery with three to six prominent veins. The flowers are pale yellow, and borne in single spikes in axils 10–25 mm (0.39–0.98 in) long. Flowering occurs in July and August, and the fruit is a flat, linear to lance-shaped pod 60–85 mm (2.4–3.3 in) long, and contains brown, oblong to elliptic seeds 4–6.5 mm (0.16–0.26 in) long.[2][3][4][5][6]
Taxonomy
editAcacia argyraea was first formally described in 1970 by Mary Tindale in Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium from specimens collected from Nicholson station, in Western Australia in 1967.[6][7] The specific epithet (argyraea) means 'silvery in colour'.[8]
Distribution
editThis species of wattle is native to an area of the Kimberley region of Western Australia, to the Northern Territory and north western Queensland north of around 20° in latitude,[3] but is considered to be quite rare in Queensland.[9] It is often in found around areas of shale, but also will grow in lateritic and sandy soils.[2]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Acacia argyraea". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
- ^ a b "Acacia argyraea". Wattle- Acacias of Australia. Lucid Central. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ a b Tindale, Mary D.; Kodela, Phillip G. Kodela, Phillip G. (ed.). "Acacia argyraea". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
- ^ "Acacia argyraea". World Wide Wattle. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
- ^ "Acacia argyraea". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
- ^ a b Tindale, Mary D. (1970). "Notes on Australian taxa of Acacia No. 2". Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium. 4 (3): 141–142. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
- ^ "Acacia argyraea". APNI. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
- ^ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 137. ISBN 9780958034180.
- ^ Pedley, Leslie (1978). "A Revision of Acacia Mill. in Queensland". Austrobaileya. 1 (2): 167. Retrieved 7 November 2024.