''Acacia ruppii'', commonly known as Rupp's 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'' native to eastern
Australia
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. It is listed as
endangered
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in the ''
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999''.
Description
The shrub typically grows to a height of and has an open bushy habit. It has shortly villous branchlets with crowded green
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 a linear to narrowly oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic shape and can be straight to incurved. The phyllodes are flat with a length of and a width of and have a prominent midrib.
[ It blooms between July and September]inflorescence
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s with one to seven heads per raceme with simple ones scattered throughout. The spherical flower-heads have a diameter of and contain between 25 and 50 golden coloured flowers. Following flowering coriaceous, dark brown to blackish seed pod
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s form that have a linear shape but can be curved to various degrees. The glabrous or shortly villous pods have a length of up to and a width of . The shiny black seeds inside are arranged longitudinally and have an oblong-elliptic shape with a length of with a clavate aril
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.[
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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 large area where it has a scattered distribution extending from the south east of Queensland
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, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, established_ ...
in the north around Wyberba down to around Torrington in New South Wales
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, map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates:
, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, es ...
in the south where it is found on elevated tablelands growing in sandy granite
Granite () is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies undergro ...
based soils often as a part of open scrub or woodland communities.
See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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ruppii
Flora of Queensland
Flora of New South Wales
Plants described in 1912
Taxa named by Joseph Maiden