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Acacia Littorea
''Acacia littorea'', also known as the shark tooth wattle, is a shrub belonging to the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Phyllodineae''. Description The dense pungent shrub typically grows to a height of and produces yellow flowers from August to November. It has glabrous but prominently ribbed branchlets. The green, pungent and somewhat crowded phyllodes are ascending on the branchlets. They have an interesting obtriangular to obdeltate shape resembling a sharks tooth. The phyllodes are long and and sometimes larger. The simple inflorescences have globular heads containing 8 to 15 pale-yellow flowers. After flowering blackish to yellowish linear to curved seed pods that are around in length with a width of . The pods contain shiny brown oblong seeds arranged longitudinally which are long. Taxonomy The species was first formally described by the botanist Bruce Maslin in 1978 as part of the work ''Studies in the genus Acacia (Mimosaceae) – 8 A revision of the Uninerves â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Maslin
Bruce Roger Maslin (born 3 May 1946) is an Australian botanist, known for his work on ''Acacia'' taxonomy. Born in Bridgetown, Western Australia, he obtained an honours degree in botany from the University of Western Australia in 1967, then took up an appointment as a botanist with the Western Australian Herbarium. The following year he was conscripted to serve in the Vietnam War; he gave three years in National Service, serving in Vietnam in 1969. In 1970 he returned to his position at the Western Australian Herbarium, serving in that institution until 1987. During this time he was Australian Botanical Liaison Officer in 1977 and 1978; editor of ''Nuytsia ''Nuytsia floribunda'' is a hemiparasitic tree found in Western Australia. The species is known locally as moodjar and, more recently, the Christmas tree or Western Australian Christmas tree. The display of intensely bright flowers during the ...'' from 1981 to 1983; and acting curator in 1986 and 1987. In 1987, Maslin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
