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''Acacia calamifolia'', commonly known as wallowa or reed-leaf wattle, is a shrub or tree belonging to the genus '' Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Phyllodineae''
''Acacia calamifolia'', commonly known as wallowa or reed-leaf wattle, is a shrub or tree belonging to the genus '' Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Phyllodineae'' 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 south eastern parts of Australia.
Description
The rounded shrub typically grows to a height of with some individuals reaching as high as the width of the plant is usually . The narrowly linear, green to grey-green, terete phyllodes have a length of and a width of . The phyllodes have a curved point, are glabrous and sometimes scurfy with four non-prominent nerves. It blooms between October and November producing yellow flowers. Theinflorescence
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphology (biology), Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of sperma ...
s are found on two to eight headed racemes. The spherical to obloid shaped flower-heads contain 28 to 46 golden pale yellow to golden flowers. The woody, wrinkled seed pod
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s form after flowering have a moniliform shape, resembling a string of beads, with a length of up to and a width of . The dull dark brown to black oblong-elliptic shaped seeds have a length of .
Taxonomy
The species was first formally described by the botanist Robert Sweet in John Lindley's work '' Edwards's Botanical Register'' in 1824. The species was reclassified as ''Racosperma calamifolium'' byLeslie 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 ...
in 2003 then transferred ack to the genus ''Acacia'' in 2006. Other synonyms include; ''Acacia microcarpa'' var. ''linearis'', ''Acacia pulverulenta'' and ''Acacia uncinata''.
The specific epithet is taken from the Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...
words ''calamus'' meaning ''reed'' and ''folium'' meaning ''leaf'' in reference to the shape of the phyllodes.
Distribution
The shrub is found inSouth Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...
from the Flinders Ranges
The Flinders Ranges are the largest mountain range in South Australia, which starts about north of Adelaide. The ranges stretch for over from Port Pirie to Lake Callabonna.
The Adnyamathanha people are the Aboriginal group who have inhabit ...
in the north south to the Tothill Ranges in the northern Mount Lofty Ranges
The Mount Lofty Ranges are a range of mountains in the Australian state of South Australia which for a small part of its length borders the east of Adelaide. The part of the range in the vicinity of Adelaide is called the Adelaide Hills and ...
and east to Broken Hill and central parts of New South Wales
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. It is often a part of woodland and open scrubland communities where it grows in a variety of soil types different soils. It is also found in north western Victoria
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* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada
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Cultivation
The shrub is planted as medium-sized ornamental wattle that is suitable as a low shelter plant. It can tolerate full sun or part shade and prefers a well-drained soil but can endure short periods of water logging. It isdrought
A drought is defined as drier than normal conditions.Douville, H., K. Raghavan, J. Renwick, R.P. Allan, P.A. Arias, M. Barlow, R. Cerezo-Mota, A. Cherchi, T.Y. Gan, J. Gergis, D. Jiang, A. Khan, W. Pokam Mba, D. Rosenfeld, J. Tierney, an ...
and frost tolerant to . It makes good habitat for bird life and the seeds are and an important part of the Mallee fowl
The malleefowl (''Leipoa ocellata'') is a stocky ground-dwelling Australian bird about the size of a domestic chicken (to which it is distantly related). It is notable for the large nesting mounds constructed by the males and lack of parental ca ...
's diet.
See also
* List of ''Acacia'' speciesReferences
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