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''Acacia fimbriata'', commonly known as the fringed wattle or Brisbane golden wattle, is a species of ''
''Acacia fimbriata'', commonly known as the fringed wattle or Brisbane golden wattle, 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 ...
'' that is native along much of the east coast of Australia.
Description
The shrub has an erect or spreading habit and typically grows to a height of and a width of around . It has angled or flattened branchlets and linearphyllode
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 with a narrowly elliptic or narrowly lanceolate shape and are straight or very slightly curved. The phyllodes are in length and wide.
It blooms between July and November producing 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 in groups of 8 to 25 located in an axillary raceme
A raceme ( or ) or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing flowers having short floral stalks along the shoots that bear the flowers. The oldest flowers grow close to the base and new flowers are produced as the s ...
s, the spherical flower-heads have a diameter of and contain 10 to 20 bright yellow or sometimes pale yellow flowers. The glabrous, firmly paper 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 that form after flowering are flat and straight to slightly curved with straight sides. The pods have a length of and a width of . The slightly shiny black seeds are arranged longitudinally in the pods. the seeds have an oblong-elliptical shape and are in length with a clavate aril
An aril (pronounced ), also called an arillus, is a specialized outgrowth from a seed that partly or completely covers the seed. An arillode or false aril is sometimes distinguished: whereas an aril grows from the attachment point of the see ...
.
Taxonomy
''Acacia fimbriata'' was first formally described by the botanistGeorge Don
George Don (29 April 1798 – 25 February 1856) was a Scottish botanist and plant collector.
Life and career
George Don was born at Doo Hillock, Forfar, Angus, Scotland on 29 April 1798 to Caroline Clementina Stuart and George Don (b.1756), p ...
in 1832 in his book ''A General History of Dichlamydeous Plants'' from an unpublished manuscript by Allan Cunningham. The type specimen
In biology, a type is a particular wiktionary:en:specimen, specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally attached. In other words, a type is an example that serves to a ...
was collected by Cunningham in 1828 from along the Brisbane River
The Brisbane River is the longest river in South East Queensland, Australia, and flows through the city of Brisbane, before emptying into Moreton Bay on the Coral Sea. John Oxley, the first European to explore the river, named it after the Go ...
.
Distribution
The shrub is commonly situated in coastal areas and the adjacent tablelands inNew South Wales
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and Queensland
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. In New South Wales it is found from Nerriga in the south to Inverell in the west to north of the Queensland border as far as Yeppoon
Yeppoon is a coastal town and locality in the Shire of Livingstone, Queensland, Australia. Yeppoon is renowned for its beaches, tropical climate, and the islands out on the bay. Located from the city of Rockhampton, Yeppoon is the seat of the ...
and the Carnarvon National Park. It is often located along rocky streams 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 ...
'' woodland communities growing in rocky and sandy soils or along the fringes of rainforest
Rainforests are characterized by a closed and continuous tree canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire. Rainforest can be classified as tropical rainforest or temperate rainfores ...
in more northern areas.
Cultivation
The plant is available for cultivation in seed form. It can be gown as a hedge or screening plant but does require adequate water. It is quite hardy, can be planted in atropical
The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator. They are defined in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere at N and the Tropic of Capricorn in
the Southern Hemisphere at S. The tropics are also referred to ...
environment and is frost tolerant.
See also
List of ''Acacia'' speciesReferences
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