''Acacia blakei'', commonly known as Blake's wattle or Wollomombi 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 ''Juliflorae'' that is native to north eastern Australia.
Description
The erect tree typically grows to a height of less than and has fissured grey coloured bark. It has light green to brown coloured branchlets that are angular toward the apices but otherwise terete that are sometimes pruinose or scurfy. Like most species of ''Acacia'' it has 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 rather than true leaves. The phyllodes are flat and falcate with an elliptic to narrowly elliptic shape and a length of and a width of . They are thinly coriaceous and usually glabrous and have two or three conspicuous longitudinal nerves and two or three less prominent nerves separate to the base.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 that occur in groups of one to three in the axil
A leaf ( : leaves) is any of the principal appendages of a vascular plant stem, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", while the leaves, st ...
s. The cylindrical flower-heads are in length with yellow to pale yellow or cream-coloured flowers. After flowering straight to curved seed pod
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s form that are more or less flat except over the seeds. The glabrous to sparsely hairy seed pods have a length of and a width of and have a firmly papery to thinly leathery texture and are smooth or wrinkled longitudinally.
Taxonomy
There are two known subspecies
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* ''Acacia blakei'' Pedley subsp. ''blakei''
* ''Acacia blakei'' subsp. ''diphylla'' (Tindale) Pedley[
The ]specific epithet
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honours the botanist
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Stanley T. Blake (1911–1973) who once worked for the Queensland Herbarium.[
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Distribution
It 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 elsew ...
to central and eastern parts of southern Queensland
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as far north as Emerald
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and the Blackdown Tableland extending south to north eastern parts of New South Wales
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, es ...
to around the Coxs River
The Coxs River, a perennial river that is part of the Hawkesbury-Nepean catchment, is located in the Central Tablelands, Blue Mountains, and Macarthur regions of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
The Coxs River rises in Gardine ...
and Lake Yarrunga
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The Scheme was built as a joint project between the Electricity Commission of NSW ...
to the south west of Sydney.[ It is usually part of dry ]sclerophyll forest
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 ...
and woodland communities.[
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See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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blakei
Flora of Queensland
Flora of New South Wales
Taxa named by Leslie Pedley
Plants described in 1974