''Acacia handonis'', commonly known as Hando's wattle or Percy Grant wattle, is a shrub 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 ''Phyllodineae'' that is native to parts of north eastern
Australia
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. In 2008 it was listed as
vulnerable
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* Vulnerability
* Vulnerability (computing)
* Vulnerable adult
* Vulnerable species
Music
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according to the ''
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999''.
Description
The resinous and slender shrub that typically grows to a height and width of . It has finely ribbed branchlets with short, scattered, glandular hairs. 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, crowded phyllodes are straight, erect and sometimes subverticillate and usually slightly recurved at the apex. The phyllodes have a length of and a width of and have with two indistinct longitudinal grooves when dried. It produces bright yellow flowers between July and September. The simple
inflorescences occur singly in the axils and have spherical flower-heads containing 30 bright yellow flowers. After flowering
seed pods form that have a narrowly oblong shape and are up to in length and wide and have raised cartilaginous sections on the valves. The oblong seeds within the pods are arranged longitudinally and are about in length with a clavate
aril
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.
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Distribution
The shrub has a limited distribution in south eastern Queensland to the north of Chinchilla
Chinchillas are either of two species (''Chinchilla chinchilla'' and ''Chinchilla lanigera'') of crepuscular rodents of the parvorder Caviomorpha. They are slightly larger and more robust than ground squirrels, and are native to the Andes mount ...
in the Barakula area where it is found in undulating country usually stony ridges where it grows in sandy or clay lateritic
Laterite is both a soil and a rock type rich in iron and aluminium and is commonly considered to have formed in hot and wet tropical areas. Nearly all laterites are of rusty-red coloration, because of high iron oxide content. They develop by ...
soils sometimes with ironstone gravel as a part of open '' Eucalyptus'' woodland communities.[
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See also
* List of ''Acacia species
References
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handonis
Endemic flora of Queensland
Plants described in 1981
Taxa named by Leslie Pedley