''Acacia burrowii'', commonly known as Burrow's wattle, is a tree 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 eastern

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Description

The tree only has single stem typically grows to a height of less than and grey coloured ribbony bark. It has glabrous, scurfy, reddish-brown coloured branchlets that are angular towards the apices. 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 instead of true leaves. The flat, straight, or slightly curved phyllodes have a narrowly elliptic shape with a length of and a width of and have one to three slightly prominent main veins. It blooms between July and October producing yellow flowers. The flower-spikes have a length of packed with golden coloured flowers. After flowering thinly coriaceous to crustaceous

seed pod This page provides a glossary of plant morphology. Botanists and other biologists who study plant morphology use a number of different terms to classify and identify plant organs and parts that can be observed using no more than a handheld magnify ...

s form that have a linear shape and are slightly constricted between seeds with a length of . The dark brown to black seeds with an oblong-elliptic shape are longitudinally arranged in the pods.

Distribution

It is

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to north western

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and south eastern

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. It is found on the plains around

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and

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in the south withit's range extending north through

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and the Pilliga Scrub into south eastern Queensland from around Goodiwindi and

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in the south up to around Eidsvold in the north where it is found in rocky hillsides in loamy or sandy soils as a part of ''

Eucalyptus ''Eucalyptus'' () is a genus of over seven hundred species of flowering trees, shrubs or mallees in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. Along with several other genera in the tribe Eucalypteae, including '' Corymbia'', they are commonly known as euca ...

'' forest and woodland communities or sometimes dense scrubland.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q9562979 burrowii Flora of Queensland Flora of New South Wales Taxa named by Joseph Maiden Plants described in 1920

Description

Distribution

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References