''Acacia purpureopetala'', more commonly known as Purple flowered wattle or Cupid's wattle, is the only pink flowering wattle in Australia.
It grows in the
Herberton
Herberton is a rural town and locality in the Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Herberton had a population of 855 people.
Geography
Herberton is on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland. It is situa ...
district of north-east Queensland. Under the
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 it is listed as critically endangered.
[ It is only known from five discreet locations with approximately 7,0000 individual plants remaining.
Community members often refer to the plant as Cupid's wattle, Purple flowered wattle or pink wattle because of the colour of the bloom, which comes around Mother's day every year. It is the only wattle found in ]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 ...
with purple flowers.
Description
The small shrub has a spreading habit with prostrate branches. The angular to terete branches are angular are densely covered with white spreading hairs. It flowers between May and September.
Distribution
It is endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to a small area in north eastern Queensland around Herberton
Herberton is a rural town and locality in the Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Herberton had a population of 855 people.
Geography
Herberton is on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland. It is situa ...
, around Mount Emerald found to the south-west of Walkamin and at Stannary Hills.
It is situated on steep rocky slopes, with an altitude of as a part of ''Eucalyptus
''Eucalyptus'' () is a genus of over seven hundred species of flowering trees, shrubs or mallees in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. Along with several other genera in the tribe Eucalypteae, including '' Corymbia'', they are commonly known as euca ...
'' woodland communities.[
]
See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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purpureopetala
Flora of Queensland