Acacia curranii

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Curly-bark wattle
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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. curranii
Binomial name
Acacia curranii
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Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms [1]
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In the Australian National Botanic Gardens

Acacia curranii, also known as curly-bark wattle or Curran's wattle, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a multi-stemmed shrub with Minni ritchi bark, sometimes hairy branchlets, erect linear phyllodes, spikes of golden yellow flowers and linear, firmly papery pods.

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Description

Acacia curranii is a multistemmed shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 3 m (9.8 ft) and has maroon or grey 'Minni Ritchi' bark. Its phyllodes are erect, linear, more or less terete or flattened, 85–180 mm (3.3–7.1 in) long, usually 0.5–1.5 mm (0.020–0.059 in) wide and striated, with about 25 closely parallel veins. There is a gland up to 2.3 mm (0.091 in) above the base of the phyllodes. The flowers are borne in spikes 4–12 mm (0.16–0.47 in) long of golden yellow flowers. Flowering occurs from July to September, and the pods are linear, flat to more or less straight sided to slightly constricted between the seeds, 40–70 mm (1.6–2.8 in) long, 2.0–3.5 mm (0.079–0.138 in) wide and firmly papery. The seeds are more or less narrowly oblong, 3.0–3.3 mm (0.12–0.13 in) long and dark brown. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Taxonomy

Acacia curranii was first formally described in 1916 by Joseph Maiden in the Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales from specimens apparently collected near Cobar by "Rev. J. Milne Curran, F.G.S.". [7] [8] The specific epithet (curranii) honours the collector of the type specimens. [2]

Distribution and habitat

Curly-bark wattle has a disjunct distribution, occurring in the Darling Downs in the Gurulmundi area in south-eastern Queensland, and several hundred kilometres away around Lake Cargelligo and the Gunderbooka Range in New South Wales. It grows in poorly drained sandy soils overlying sandstone in the north and skeletal soils on igneous hills in the south. [2] [3]

Conservation status

Acacia curranii is listed as "vulnerable" under the Australian Government Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 [6] , the New South Wales Government Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 [5] and the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992 . [9]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Acacia curranii". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Kodela, Phillip G.; Tindale, Mary D. Kodela, Phillip G.; Orchard, Anthony E. (eds.). "Acacia curranii". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
  3. 1 2 "Acacia curranii". WorldWideWattle. Western Australian Herbarium . Retrieved 21 September 2019.
  4. ↑ "Acacia curranii". Australian Biological Resources Study. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
  5. 1 2 Kodela, Phillip G. "Acacia curranii". Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
  6. 1 2 "Acacia curranii — Curly-bark Wattle". Species Profile and Threats Database. Department of the Environment and Energy. 1 March 2015. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  7. ↑ "Acacia curranii". APNI. Retrieved 7 August 2025.
  8. ↑ Maiden, Joseph (1916). "Notes on Acacia, (with description of new species), No. I." Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. 49 (3): 492–494. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
  9. ↑ "Taxon - Acacia curranii (curly-bark wattle)". Queensland Government WildNet. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
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