''Acacia oshanesii'', commonly known as corkwood wattle and irish 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 ...
'' native to eastern
Australia
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.
Description
The shrub or tree has an erect habit and typically grows to a height of and has grey, green or brown coloured bark with a smooth or slightly fissured texture. The angled to terete branchlets have fine yellowish brown to white hairs found on the ridges. The filiform leaves have a long
rachis
In biology, a rachis (from the grc, ῥάχις [], "backbone, spine") is a main axis or "shaft".
In zoology and microbiology
In vertebrates, ''rachis'' can refer to the series of articulated vertebrae, which encase the spinal cord. In this c ...
with 7 to 27 pairs of
pinnae
The auricle or auricula is the visible part of the ear that is outside the head. It is also called the pinna (Latin for "wing" or "fin", plural pinnae), a term that is used more in zoology.
Structure
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with a length of that are, in turn, composed of 14 to 51 pairs of
glabrous
Glabrousness (from the Latin ''glaber'' meaning "bald", "hairless", "shaved", "smooth") is the technical term for a lack of hair, down, setae, trichomes or other such covering. A glabrous surface may be a natural characteristic of all or part of ...
pinnules with an oblong to narrowly oblong shape that are in length and wide.
[ It flowers throughout the year and produces yellow flowers. The simple ]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 are located in the axillary racemes and have spherical-flower-heads that contain 12 to 25 pale yellow or cream-coloured flowers. After flowering coriaceous and brownish black to bluish-black 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 form that usually have a curved shape with a length of and have a width of .[
]
Distribution
It is found in parts of north eastern New South Wales
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from around Bellingen and Coff Harbour in the south extending northward into south eastern Queensland
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. It is found in a variety of habitat growing in gravelly, clay and sandy to loamy soils as a part of wet sclerophyll
Sclerophyll is a type of vegetation that is adapted to long periods of dryness and heat. The plants feature hard leaf, leaves, short Internode (botany), internodes (the distance between leaves along the stem) and leaf orientation which is paral ...
forest and rainforest communities.[ Its range extends from around Maryborough in the north down to around ]Stanmore
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in the south where it is situated in coastal areas with a high rainfall and low altitudes.
See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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oshanesii
Fabales of Australia
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Queensland