Acacia hylonoma, commonly known as Yarrabah wattle,[5] is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic to a small area of north eastern Australia.
The tree can grow to be as tall as 15m (49ft) in height with a trunk that is 20cm (7.9in)dbh[6] with yellowish brown coloured bark.[5] It has glabrous and lenticellate branchlets. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The thinly leathery, glabrous and evergreen phyllodes have a narrowly elliptic shape and are straight to shallowly recurved. The phyllodes have a length of 8 to 15cm (3.1 to 5.9in) and a width of 7 to 25mm (0.28 to 0.98in) and have sox to eleven main nerves with many longitudinally anastomosing minor nerves in between.[6]
Distribution
It is native to a small area in northern Queensland just south east of Cairns where it is a part of rainforest communities.[6] It is found in only a few localities that range in altitude from sea level up to 400m (1,300ft) in well developed upland and lowland rain forest. It grows well in disturbed areas and is a component of rain forest regrowth.[5]
Etymology
The first use of hylonoma as a specific epithet was in 1916 for Salix hylonoma,[7] where the epithet is described as being derived from the Greek, hylonomos, and means "living in woods"[8]
↑Schneider, C.K (1916). "Salix hylonoma". Plantae Wilsonianae: An Enumeration of the Woody Plants Collected in Western China for the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University During the Years 1907, 1908, and 1910. 3: 69.
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