''Acacia nana'', also known as the small red-leaved 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'' where it is
endemic to eastern
Australia
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.
Description
The shrub typically grows to a height of and has reddish to brown branchlets that are usually hairy. 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 have a straight narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate shaped
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 with an excentric
mucro. The
glabrous to sub-glabrous phyllodes are in length and wide with a single nerve per face and age to a red colour. It has
racemose inflorescences with spherical flower-heads that contain 7 to 12 golden coloured flowers. Following flowering it produces chartaceous and glabrous
seed pods that have a narrowly oblong to linear shape with a length of around and a width of . The dark brown seeds inside have an elliptic shape and a length of about .
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Distribution
It is native to a disjunct area in the northern and central tablelands of New South Wales.Longford
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and Ebor Ebor is the abbreviation of the Latin '' Eboracum'', the early name of York in Britain. It may also mean:
* Ebor, the legal alias of the Archbishops of York
* Ebor, Manitoba, a community in Canada
* Ebor, New South Wales, a village in Australia ...
and the southern populations are in the western Blue Mountains around Capetree and Cullen Bullen
Cullen Bullen is a village in New South Wales, Australia. It is located on Mudgee Road, 168 km north-west of Sydney, 28 km north of Lithgow. At the 2016 census, Cullen Bullen had a population of 279 people, up from 198 ten years e ...
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See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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nana
Flora of New South Wales
Plants described in 2002