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Acacia Mariae
''Acacia mariae'', commonly known as golden-top wattle or crowned wattle, is a species of wattle native to central New South Wales. Description The shrub typically grows to a height of and has an erect or spreading habit. It has smooth grey coloured bark with angled to terete branchlets that are densely haired. Like most species of ''Acacia'' it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The whorled or clustered evergreen phyllodes have a narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblanceolate shape and are straight to slightly curved. The phyllodes have silvery-grey hairs and a length of and a width of and an obscure midvein. It blooms between July and October producing simple inflorescences that occur singly in the axils. The spherical flower-heads have a diameter of containing 22 to 38 bright yellow coloured flowers. Following flowering it produces straight and flat seed pods that have straight sides and a length of and a width of and a thin leathery texture. Taxonomy The species was fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Pedley
Leslie Pedley (19 May 1930 – 27 November 2018)IPNILeslie Pedley/ref> was an Australian botanist who specialised in the genus ''Acacia''. He is notable for bringing into use the generic name ''Racosperma'', creating a split in the genus, which required some 900 Australian species to be renamed, because the type species of ''Acacia'', ''Acacia nilotica'', now ''Vachellia nilotica'', had a different lineage from the Australian wattles. However, the International Botanical Congress (IBC), held in Melbourne in 2011, ratified its earlier decision to retain the name ''Acacia'' for the Australian species, but to rename the African species. See also: ''Acacia'' and ''Vachellia nilotica'' regarding the dispute, anAPNIfor a brief history of the name, ''Racosperma''. In 2018, Japanese botanists Hiroyoshi Ohashi and Kazuaki K. Ohashi published '' Pedleya'' (in the Fabaceae family) from New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |