Acacia baeuerlenii

Acacia baeuerlenii
In D'Aguilar National Park.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Caesalpinioideae
Clade:	Mimosoid clade
Genus:	Acacia
Species:	A. baeuerlenii
Binomial name
Acacia baeuerlenii Maiden & R.T.Baker [1]
Acacia baeuerlenii occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium

Acacia baeuerlenii is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a small area in eastern Australia. It is a slender shrub with mostly narrowly elliptic phyllodes, racemes of spherical heads of creamy-white flowers, and leathery pods.

Description

Acacia baeuerlenii is a slender shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–4 m (3 ft 3 in – 13 ft 1 in) and has angled, ribbed and hairy branchlets. Its phyllodes are erect, narrowly elliptic, straight to slightly curved, 65–150 mm (2.6–5.9 in) long and 4.5–13 mm (0.18–0.51 in) wide, leathery and glabrous. The flowers are arranged in up to three spherical heads on a raceme 1–6 mm (0.039–0.236 in) long on a peduncle 7–16 mm (0.28–0.63 in) long. Each head is 7–9 mm (0.28–0.35 in) in diameter with 30 to 40 creamy-white flowers. Flowering occurs from June to August and the pods are narrowly oblong, leathery, up to 85 mm (3.3 in) long and 6–8 mm (0.24–0.31 in) wide, raised on opposite sides over alternate seeds. The seeds are broadly oblong-elliptic, dark brown, 5.0–5.5 mm (0.20–0.22 in) long with a thick, fleshy aril. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

Taxonomy

The species was first formally described in 1896 by the botanists Joseph Maiden and Richard Thomas Baker in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales from specimens collected at New Italy by William Baeuerlen. ^{[6] [7]} This species is similar to A. tessellata and A. venulosa . ^[4]

Distribution and habitat

This species of wattle is found from near Helidon is south-east Queensland and south to Maclean, Red Rock and the Gibraltar Range in northern New South Wales, where it grows on sandy soil in forest. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

See also

• List of Acacia species

References

1. "Acacia baeuerlenii". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
2. Cowan, Richard S.; Maslin, Bruce R. Kodela, Phillip G. (ed.). "Acacia baeuerlenii". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
3. "Acacia baueuerlenii". World Wide Wattle. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
4. Kodela, Phillip G.; Harden, Gwen J. "Acacia baeuerlenii". Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
5. "Acacia baeuerlenii". Wattle - Acacias of Australia. Lucid Central. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
6. "Acacia baeuerlenii". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
7. Maiden, Joseph H.; Baker, Richard T. (1896). "Descriptions of some new species of plants from New South Wales". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 2. 10 (4): 583–585. Retrieved 5 March 2025.