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''Acacia sertiformis'', commonly known as curly-leaved wattle, is a shrub belonging to the genus ''
''Acacia sertiformis'', commonly known as curly-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'' native to north eastern Australia
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.
Description
The shrub typically grows to a height of with an open, sparsely branched habit and the branches tend to arch downwards. It has sparsely to moderately hairy branchlets than can be coated in a white powder. The dull-grey greenphyllode
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 are widely spread and rotated to the branchlet. The phyllodes are often convex with a broadly elliptic to orbicular shape having a length of and a width of . The shrub flowers throughout the year.
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 have spherical flower-heads with a diameter of containing 25 to 75 densely packed deep yellow flowers. The straight to curved brown and firmly coriaceous seed pod
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s that form after flowering have a broadly oblong shape and a length of and a width of .
Taxonomy
The species was first formally described by the botanist Allan Cunningham in 1835 as part ofWilliam Jackson Hooker
Sir William Jackson Hooker (6 July 178512 August 1865) was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew when in 1841 it was recommended to be placed under state ownership as a botanic garden. At Kew he ...
's work ''Botanical Magazine''. It was reclassified as ''Racosperma sertiforme'' by Leslie Pedley
Leslie Pedley (19 May 1930 – 27 November 2018)IPNILeslie Pedley/ref> was an Australian botanist who specialised in the genus ''Acacia''. He is notable for bringing into use the generic name ''Racosperma'', creating a split in the genus, which r ...
in 2003 and then transferred back to genus ''Acacia'' in 2006.
Distribution
It isendemic
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 ...
only in a small area in south eastern Queensland
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from around Barakula, Wallangarra
Wallangarra is a rural town and locality in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia on the border with New South Wales. In the , the locality of Wallangarra had a population of 468 people.
It is the third-most southerly town in Queens ...
and Goombungee
Goombungee is a rural town and locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the the locality of Goombungee had a population of 1,026 people.
Geography
Goombungee is 35 km north-west of Toowoomba in the Darling Downs.
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in the north and down to around Dubbo
Dubbo () is a city in the Orana Region of New South Wales, Australia. It is the largest population centre in the Orana region, with a population of 43,516 at June 2021.
The city is located at the intersection of the Newell, Mitchell, and Gol ...
in New South Wales
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in the south where it is found in a variety of habitats growing in stony sandy-loamy soils as a part of open ''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 ...
'' or ''Callitris
''Callitris'' is a genus of coniferous trees in the Cupressaceae (cypress family). There are 16 recognized species in the genus, of which 13 are native to Australia and the other three (''C. neocaledonica, C. sulcata'' and ''C. p ...
'' woodland communities.
See also
* List of ''Acacia'' speciesReferences
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