Acacia armitii

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Acacia armitii
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Acacia
Species:
A. armitii
Binomial name
Acacia armitii
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Acacia armitii is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae that is native to north eastern Australia. It is considered as near threatened in Queensland. [1] It was first described in 1917 by Ferdinand von Mueller in a publication by Joseph Maiden. [2] [3]

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Description

The slender tree or shrub typically grows to a maximum height of around 7.5 m (25 ft) and has glabrous, fawn to yellow coloured, prominently angled branchlets. [4] The bark on the trunk and main branches is grey and fissured. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The yellowish-green coloured phyllodes are resinous and erect and are flat and straight or slightly curved with a very narrowly elliptic to almost linear shape. They are quite stiff but flexible and have a length of 4.5 to 17 cm (1.8 to 6.7 in) and a width of 3.5 to 17 mm (0.14 to 0.67 in) with one prominent yellowish coloured mid-nerve and one less prominent nerve on either side of the phyllode along with four to eight minor parallel nerves. [1] It blooms between June and July and also September and October. [4]

Etymology

The specific epithet, armitii, honours William Edington (de Marguerittes) Armit (1848–1901). [5]

Distribution

It is native to areas around the Einasleigh River in central-northern Queensland and is found on a sandstone plateau to the south of the Goomadeer River and also along Coopers Creek near Nabarlek in the Northern Territory and is known to grow in rocky, sandy or shallow soils along creek banks and river flats and floodplains. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Acacia armitii". WetlandInfo. Queensland Government . Retrieved 21 September 2019.
  2. "Acacia armitii". Australian Plant Name Index, IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
  3. J.H. Maiden (1917). "Notes on Acacia, No. II. — tropical Western Australia (including descriptions of new species)". Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. 51: 71-124 [84-87]. doi:10.5962/p.359705. ISSN   0035-9173. Wikidata   Q130282429.
  4. 1 2 3 "Acacia armitii". WorldWideWattle. Western Australian Herbarium . Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  5. "Flora of Australia Profile Acacia armitii". profiles.ala.org.au. Archived from the original on 2021-04-11. Retrieved 2019-09-21.