''Acacia lunata'', commonly known as lunate-leaved acacia, is a shrub of 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 endemic to eastern
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.
Description
The shrub typically grows to a height of and has a spreading habit and glabrous branchlets with
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 that have an inequilaterally oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic shape. The racemose inflorescences occur prolifically in the upper axils. The spherical flower-heads have a diameter of containing three to five loosely packed bright golden flowers. The firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous seed pods have a narrowly oblong shape with a length of up to and a width of . The pods contain dull black seeds that are arranged longitudinally with an ovate shape and a length of .
Taxonomy
The species was first formally described by the botanist Conrad Loddiges in 1819 as a part of the work '' The Botanical Cabinet''. It was reclassified as ''Racosperma lunatum'' by Leslie Pedley in 2003 then transferred back to genus ''Acacia'' in 2006.
Richmond
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in the south on slopes and around creeks in sandy sandstone based soils as a part of open '' Eucalyptus'' woodland communities.
lunata
Lunata is a locality of the commune of Capannori in the Province of Lucca, Tuscany, central Italy, one of the forty ''frazioni'' identified in the municipal statute.Flora of New South WalesPlants described in 1819