''Acacia crassa'', commonly known as the curracabah, is a species of ''
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 ...
'' native to eastern
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
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Description
The shrub to tree typically grows to a height of and has finely corrugated bark that fissures at the base.
[ The angled stout branchlets are light or dark grey or red-brown and often have distinct ]lenticel
A lenticel is a porous tissue consisting of cells with large intercellular spaces in the periderm of the secondarily thickened organs and the bark of woody stems and roots of dicotyledonous flowering plants. It functions as a pore, providing a ...
s. The evergreen 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 have a narrowly elliptic shape that gradually tapers both ends. They are usually in length and wide and have three prominent main nerves. It flowers between July and October, the further south the later it flowers.[
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Distribution
Its range follows along the line of the Great Dividing Range
The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansive collection of mountain ranges, plateaus and rolling hills, that runs rough ...
from around Mackay Mackay may refer to:
*Clan Mackay, the Scottish clan from which the surname "MacKay" derives
Mackay may also refer to:
Places Australia
* Mackay Region, a local government area
** Mackay, Queensland, a city in the above region
*** Mackay Airport ...
in Queensland to about Newcastle in New South Wales[ where it is found on sandstone and rocky conglomerate areas growing in gravelly, sandy, sandy loam or clayey soils. It is usually a part of sclerophyll woodland, heath or open scrub communities.][
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Taxonomy
The species was first formally described by the botanist Leslie Pedley in 1974 in the work ''Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium''. It was reclassified by Pedley in 1987 as ''Racosperma crassum'', then transferred back to the genus ''Acacia'' in 2001.subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...
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*''Acacia crassa'' Pedley subsp. ''crassa''
*''Acacia crassa'' subsp. ''longicoma'' Pedley[
The shrub is a member of the '' Acacia cunninghamii'' group and is closely related to '']Acacia concurrens
''Acacia concurrens'', commonly known as curracabah or black wattle, is a shrub native to Queensland in eastern Australia.
Formerly known as ''Acacia cunninghamii'', the new name ''Acacia concurrens'' describes the converging primary veins on the ...
'', '' Acacia leiocalyx'', ''Acacia longispicata
''Acacia longispicata'', commonly known as the slender flower wattle, is a species of ''Acacia'' native to eastern Australia.
Description
The erect single stemmed tree typically grows to a height of in height. The bark is smooth toward the tree ...
'' and '' Acacia tingoorensis''.[
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See also
* List of Acacia species
Several Cladistics, cladistic analyses have shown that the genus ''Acacia sensu lato, Acacia'' is not monophyletic. While the subg. ''Acacia'' and subg. ''Phyllodinae'' are monophyletic, subg. ''Aculeiferum'' is not. This subgenus consists of thr ...
References
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crassa
''Crassa'' is a genus of the concealer moth family (Oecophoridae). Among these, it belongs to subfamily Oecophorinae. The genus name ''Tichonia'', established by J. Hübner in 1825, was frequently misapplied to these moths by earlier authors ...
Fabales of Australia
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Queensland
Plants described in 1974
Taxa named by Leslie Pedley