''Acacia baeuerlenii'' is a shrub of the genus ''
Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Plurinerves'' that is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...
to a small area in eastern
Australia.
Description
The shrub has slender habit and typically grows to a height of and has angled, ribbed and hairy branchlets. Like most species of ''Acacia'' it has
phyllodes instead of true leaves. The evergreen and ascending phyllodes usually have a narrowly elliptic and are straight to slightly incurved. The
glabrous
Glabrousness (from the Latin '' glaber'' meaning "bald", "hairless", "shaved", "smooth") is the technical term for a lack of hair, down, setae, trichomes or other such covering. A glabrous surface may be a natural characteristic of all or part of ...
phyllodes are in length and in width and have multiple distant main nerves.
It blooms between June and August producing simple
inflorescence
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s in group of one to three along an axillary axis with a length of . The spherical flowerheads have a diameter of and contain 30 to 40 white to cream-coloured flowers. Following flowering it produces hairy and leathery
seed pod
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s that are straight or occasionally twisted. The straight sided pods are in length and wide and have the seeds inside are arranged longitudinally.
[ The dull dark brown seeds have a broadly oblong-elliptic shape with a length of and a thick and fleshy aril.][
]
Taxonomy
The species was first formally described in 1896 by the botanists Joseph Maiden
Joseph Henry Maiden (25 April 1859 – 16 November 1925) was a botanist who made a major contribution to knowledge of the Australian flora, especially the genus ''Eucalyptus''. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation when citing ...
and Richard Thomas Baker
Richard Thomas Baker (1 December 1854 – 14 July 1941) was an Australian economic Botany, botanist, museum curator and educator.
Early life
Baker was born in Woolwich, England, son of Richard Thomas Baker, a blacksmith, and his wife Sarah, née ...
as part of the work ''Descriptions of some new species of plants from New South Wales'' as published in the ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales''. It was reclassified as ''Racosperma baeuerlenii'' in 1987 by 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 r ...
then transferred back to genus ''Acacia'' in 2001. The only other synonym is ''Acacia baeuerleni''.type specimen
In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally attached. In other words, a type is an example that serves to anchor or centralizes th ...
. It is similar in appearance to '' Acacia tessellata'' and '' Acacia venulosa''.[
]
Distribution
The range of the plant extends from around Maclean
MacLean, also spelt Maclean and McLean, is a Gaelic surname Mac Gille Eathain, or, Mac Giolla Eóin in Irish Gaelic), Eóin being a Gaelic form of Johannes (John). The clan surname is an Anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic "Mac Gille Eathai ...
and north of Red Rock and the Gibraltar Range
The Gibraltar Range is a mountain range in the Northern Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia. The range extends off the Great Dividing Range at Bald Nob about east northeast of and trends generally east northeast and north northea ...
New South Wales
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, map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates:
, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, es ...
in the south up to around Helidon in south-eastern Queensland
)
, nickname = Sunshine State
, image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg
, map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia
, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, establishe ...
in the north. It is often sandy soils as a part of dry sclerophyll
Sclerophyll is a type of vegetation that is adapted to long periods of dryness and heat. The plants feature hard leaves, short internodes (the distance between leaves along the stem) and leaf orientation which is parallel or oblique to direct ...
forest communities.[
]
See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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baeuerlenii
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Queensland
Plants described in 1896
Taxa named by Joseph Maiden
Taxa named by Richard Thomas Baker