''Acacia tingoorensis'',
also known as Tingoora wattle,
is a tree belonging to the genus ''
Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Juliflorae'' that is native to eastern
Australia.
Description
The tree Typically grows to a height of and has hard grey-brown coloured bark that is slightly furrowed.
It usually has dense angular branchlets that are velvety with dense fine hairs. Like most species of ''Acacia'' it has
phyllodes rather than true leaves. The
glabrous
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narrowly elliptic phyllodes can be straight to sickle shaped with a length of and a width of with many parallel longitudinal nerves numerous where three nerves are more evident than the rest. It blooms between August and September producing golden flowers. The simple
inflorescence
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s occur as flower-spikes with a length of long.
Distribution
It is
endemic
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to a small area in the
South Burnett Region
The South Burnett Region is a local government area in the South Burnett district of Queensland, Australia.
Origins
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around
Kingaroy
Kingaroy is a rural town and locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. The town is situated on the junction of the D'Aguilar and the Bunya Highways, north-west of the state capital Brisbane and south west of Gympie. As a ...
in
South East Queensland
South East Queensland (SEQ) is a bio-geographical, metropolitan, political and administrative region of the state of Queensland in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million people out of the state's population of 5.1 million. Th ...
where it is found along road sides often is dense stands and growing in deep red loam or sandy soils 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 e ...
'' woodland communities. It is found to the east of the natural range of ''
Acacia longispicata''.
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See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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tingoorensis
Flora of Queensland
Taxa named by Leslie Pedley
Plants described in 1999