| Burbidge's wattle | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Clade: | Mimosoideae |
| Genus: | Acacia |
| Species: | A. burbidgeae |
| Binomial name | |
| Acacia burbidgeae | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
Acacia burbidgeae, commonly known as Burbidge's wattle, is a shrub or tree belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae that is endemic to parts of New South Wales and Queensland. [1]
The shrub has an erect to spreading habit and typically grows to a height of 2 metres (7 ft) [1] but reach as a high as 4 m (13 ft). The sparsely hairy branchlets are slightly resinous. The often subcrowded, slender, slightly incurved to straight phyllodes are usually patent to ascending and have a length of 15 to 40 mm (0.59 to 1.57 in) and a width of 0.6 to 1 mm (0.024 to 0.039 in). [2] It blooms from June to October and produces yellow flowers. [1] The simple inflorescences are found with one per node. The spherical flower-heads contain 20 to 30 golden flowers. The linear brown seed pods that form after flowering are up to 6.5 cm (2.6 in) in length and around 3 mm (0.12 in) wide. [2]
The species was first formally described by the botanist Leslie Pedley in 1979 as part of the work A revision of Acacia Mill. in Queensland, Part 2 as published in the journal Austrobaileya . Pedley reclassified it as Racosperma burbidgeae but it was transferred back into the genus Acacia in 2001. [3] The specific epithet honours Nancy Tyson Burbidge, an Australian botanist. [1] A. burbidgeae belongs to the Acacia johnsonii group and is most closely related to A. johnsonii , Acacia pilligaensis and Acacia islana . [2]
It is found in north eastern parts of New South Wales around Emmaville and to the south of Torrington and extending into south eastern parts of Queensland where it is a part of dry sclerophyll forests growing in sandy granitic soils. [1] In Queensland its range extends from Cunnamulla in the west to St George in the east and Chinchilla in the north. [2]
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