''Acacia striatifolia'' is a shrub or tree 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 ''Juliflorae'' that is native to north eastern
Australia
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.
Description
The shrub or tree typically grows to a maximum height of and has dark grey coloured bark that has a corrugated texture. It has dark red-brown branchlets that are angular to flattened towards the apices with non-prominent ridges and are densely papillose. Like most species of ''Acacia'' it has
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 rather than true leaves. The blue-green phyllodes have a narrowly elliptic or elliptic shape and are straight with a length of and a width of . The
glabrous phyllodes are papillose especially around the base and pulvinus and have three to five prominent longitudinal nerves. It blooms between August and September producing golden flowers. The cylindrical flower-spikes have a length of packed with deep yellow coloured flowers. The chartaceous and glabrous
seed pods that form after flowering have a linear shape and are straight-sided and constricted between and raised over the seeds. The pods are in length and wide and contain brownish to black seeds with a narrowly oblong shape with a length of .
Distribution
It is
endemic to the
Darling Downs district of
Queensland where it is situated on undulating or hilly country within the state forests to the north of
Chinchilla
Chinchillas are either of two species (''Chinchilla chinchilla'' and ''Chinchilla lanigera'') of crepuscular rodents of the parvorder Caviomorpha. They are slightly larger and more robust than ground squirrels, and are native to the Andes mount ...
where it grows in shallow, sandy and gravelly soils as a part of ''
Eucalyptus'' woodland communities or in dense stands.
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See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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striatifolia
Endemic flora of Queensland
Taxa named by Leslie Pedley
Plants described in 1978