''Acacia meiosperma'' is a shrub or tree belonging to the genus ''
Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Juliflorae'' that is native to north eastern
Australia.
Description
The shrub or tree typically grows to a maximum height of and has
glabrous
Glabrousness (from the Latin '' glaber'' meaning "bald", "hairless", "shaved", "smooth") is the technical term for a lack of hair, down, setae, trichomes or other such covering. A glabrous surface may be a natural characteristic of all or part of ...
and angular, resinous branchlets. Like most species of ''Acacia'' it has
phyllodes rather than true leaves. The usually glabrous phyllodes have an inequilaterally narrowly elliptic shape and are straight to slightly recurved with a length of and a width of and have three to five prominent veins and many fine, close and nonanastomosing veins. The
inflorescence
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s are found in groups of one to four in the
axils, with long flower-spikes packed with golden coloured flowers. The glabrous and coriaceous
seed pod
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s that form after flowering have a compressed-linear shape with a length of up to and a width of around and are obscurely longitudinally ribbed. The glossy bark brown seeds have a yellow centre and an oblong shape with a length of and a creamy white folded aril.
Distribution
It is
endemic
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to a small restricted area in
Queensland
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, establishe ...
located about south east of
Chillagoe
Chillagoe is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. In the the locality of Chillagoe had a population of 251 people.
It was once a thriving mining town for a range of minerals, but is now reduced to a small z ...
where it is found in pure stands growing on plains and slopes in shallow stony soils.
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See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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meiosperma
Flora of Queensland
Taxa named by Leslie Pedley
Plants described in 1990