''Acacia amoena'', commonly known as boomerang wattle,
[ is a shrub belonging to the genus '']Acacia
''Acacia'', commonly known as the wattles or acacias, is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa and Australasia. The genus na ...
'' and the subgenus ''Phyllodineae'' that is native to parts of eastern Australia
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Description
The shrub has an erect to spreading habit and typically grows to a height of and has reddish brown branchlets. The linear phyllode
Phyllodes are modified petioles or leaf stems, which are leaf-like in appearance and function. In some plants, these become flattened and widened, while the leaf itself becomes reduced or vanishes altogether. Thus the phyllode comes to serve the ...
s have an oblanceolate to elliptic shape and are straight or slightly curved with a length of and a width of . It blooms between July and December and produces inflorescence
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...
s with bright to pale yellow flowers.bracteole
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s. After flowering dark brown to black linear seed pod
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s form with a length of around and a width of . The oblong to elliptic shaped seeds within have a length of .[
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Taxonomy
The species was first formally described by the botanist
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Heinrich Wendland Heinrich Ludolph (Ludwig) Wendland (29 April 1791, in Hanover – 15 July 1869, in Teplice) was a botanist who authored a number of ''Acacia'' species.
Heinrich Wendland was born on 29 April 1791 into a family well known in botany. His father Joha ...
in 1820 as part of the work ''Commentatio de Acaciis aphyllis''. It is also often confused with ''Acacia rubida
''Acacia rubida'', commonly known as red stem wattle, red stemmed wattle or red leaved wattle, is a shrub belonging to the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Phyllodineae'' that is native to parts of eastern Australia.
Description
The shrub o ...
''Acacia microbotrya
''Acacia microbotrya'', commonly known as manna wattle or gum wattle, is a shrub or tree belonging to the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Phyllodineae'' that is native to Western Australia.
The Noongar peoples know the tree as Badjong, Galya ...
'' group and is closely related to '' Acacia kydrensis'' and similar to '' Acacia chalkeri'' and ''Acacia rubida
''Acacia rubida'', commonly known as red stem wattle, red stemmed wattle or red leaved wattle, is a shrub belonging to the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Phyllodineae'' that is native to parts of eastern Australia.
Description
The shrub o ...
''.
Distribution
It is found along the Great Dividing Range
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in western parts of New South Wales
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, Queensland
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and Victoria
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where it is often a part of dry sclerophyll forest or open woodland communities[ on rocky slopes and creek banks][ growing in rocky soils.][
The bulk of the population has a discontinuous distribution from around Walcha in the north down to the upper reaches of the ]Snowy River
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north-eastern Victoria.[
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See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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amoena
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Queensland
Flora of Victoria (state)
Plants described in 1820
Taxa named by Heinrich Wendland