''Acacia fodinalis'' 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 north 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 ...
.
Description
The tree typically grows to a maximum height of . It has reddish coloured and sharply angular branchlets that are resinous when the tree is young. 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 rather than true leaves. The evergreen phyllodes are slightly sickle shaped and taper equally to each end. The
glabrous are around in length and wide and have crowded and parallel longitudinal nerves parallel where two or three are more prominent than the others.
When it blooms it produces simple
inflorescences with a rather open cylindrical flower-spike that has a length of containing yellow flowers. Following flowering linear shaped, brown cloured
seed pods for that are raised over seeds and slightly constricted between them. The pods are straight with a length of around and a width of with yellow coloured marginal nerves. The light brown seeds within the pod are arranged longitudinally are around in length and wide with a yellow cupular
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 ...
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Distribution
It is endemic to central eastern Queensland where it is found in the upper portion on the Isaac River
The Isaac River is a river and anabranch located in Central Queensland, Australia.
Course
The headwaters of the river rise south east of Glenden, Queensland and flow in a generally southern direction, crossing the Peak Downs Highway near Mora ...
watershed and adjacent parts of the Belyando River catchment where it usually situated on floodplains and riverbanks growing in sandy soils as a part of open '' Eucalyptus'' woodland communities and is mostly associated with '' Eucalyptus crebra''.[
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See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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fodinalis
Endemic flora of Queensland
Taxa named by Leslie Pedley
Plants described in 1999