Acacia Pruinosa
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''Acacia pruinosa'', commonly known as the frosty 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 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 ...
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Description

The spreading shrub or tree typically grows to a height of and has smooth bark with terete branchlets. The glabrous leaves are in length and have one prominent gland near the middle of the lowermost pair of pinnae. There are between one and five pairs of pinnae that have a length of and 7 to 20 pairs of oblong pinnules that are in length and wide. The plant flowers between August and October producing 4 to 19 inflorescences in panicles that have an axis with a length of . The spherical flower-heads with a diameter of contain 40 to 60 yellow to bright yellow flowers. After flowering leathery straight to curved, flat seed pods form with a length of and a width of . The type specimen was collected by the botanist
Alan Cunningham General (United Kingdom), General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, (1 May 1887 – 30 January 1983) was a senior Officer (armed forces), officer of the British Army noted for his victories over Italian forces in the East African Campaign (World War ...
in 1827 on the Liverpool Plains of New South Wales.


Distribution

It is found in northeastern New South Wales from around Uralla in the south stretching north into southeastern Queensland. It is often a part of dry sclerophyll forest and woodland communities and grows in sandy and skeletal soils over and around granite.


See also

* List of ''Acacia'' species


References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15288434 pruinosa Fabales of Australia Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland Plants described in 1842 Taxa named by George Bentham