''Acacia burkittii'' is a species of
wattle endemic to
Western Australia
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,
South Australia
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and western
New South Wales
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, where it is found in arid zones,
and is a perennial shrub in the
family
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. Common names for it include Burkitt's wattle, fine leaf jam, gunderbluey, pin bush and sandhill wattle.
[ It has also been introduced into ]India
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. Previously this species was referred to as ''Acacia acuminata'' subsp. ''burkittii'', but is now considered to be a separate species.
Description
Erect or spreading shrub 1–4 m high or sometimes taller; bark finely fissured, dark brown; branchlets terete, glabrous.
Phyllode
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s straight or curved, terete or subterete, 5–16 cm long, 0.5–1.3 mm wide, obscurely multistriate, usually finely hairy along margins especially towards curved, acute apex; glands absent or 1 inconspicuous gland at base; pulvinus 2–3 mm long.
Inflorescences 2 or 3 in axil of phyllodes; heads ± ovoid or cylindrical, 0.5–1.5 cm long, bright yellow, usually sessile or with peduncles 1–3 mm long. Flowers mostly 4-merous; calyx dissected by 1/2 or more, the lobes usually narrow, with rounded obtuse apices (i.e. ± spathulate).
Pods slightly curved, moniliform, 5–12 cm long, 5–7 mm wide, papery, glabrous; seeds longitudinal; funicle expanded towards seed.
Flowers from July to October.
Taxonomy
The description (by Ferdinand von Mueller
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) was published in George Bentham
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's Flora Australiensis
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in 1864 from a specimen
MEL 2078154
[ found near Lake Gilles in South Australia, by Burkitt.][
]
Alkaloids
DMT
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in bark (0.2-1.2%), 0.1% alkaloids from leaves (mostly NMT
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Science and technology
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);[Recent Net reports, Australian underground info] 1.5% alkaloids from leaves and stems, mostly tryptamine
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[White, E.P. 1957. “Evaluation of further legumes, mainly Lupinus and Acacia species for alkaloids.” New Zealand J. Sci. & Tech. 38B:718-725]
References
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burkittii
Plants described in 1864
Trees of Australia
Fabales of Australia
Acacias of Western Australia
Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller