Acacia hylonoma

Acacia hylonoma, commonly known as Yarrabah wattle,[4]is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic to a small area of the north eastern Australia.

Yarrabah wattle
P03622726[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Clade: Mimosoideae
Genus: Acacia
Species:
A. hylonoma
Binomial name
Acacia hylonoma
Occurrence data from AVH

Description

The tree can grow to be as tall as 15 m (49 ft) in height with a trunk that is 20 cm (7.9 in) dbh[5] with yellowish brown coloured bark.[4] 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 15 cm (3.1 to 5.9 in) and a width of 7 to 25 mm (0.28 to 0.98 in) and have sox to eleven main nerves with many longitudinally anastomosing minor nerves in between.[5]

Distribution

It is native to a small area in northern Queensland just south east of Cairns where it is a part of rainforest communities.[5] It is found in only a few localities that range in altitude from sea level up to 400 m (1,300 ft) in well developed upland and lowland rain forest. It grows well in disturbed areas and is a component of rain forest regrowth.[4]

Etymology

The first use of hylonoma as a specific epithet was in 1916 for Salix hylonoma,[6] where the epithet is described as being derived from the Greek, hylonomos, and means "living in woods"[7]

See also

References
  1. "Acacia hylonoma P03622726". GBIF. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  2. "Acacia hylonoma". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  3. L Pedley (1978). "A revision of Acacia Mill. in Queensland". Austrobaileya. 1 (2): 214. ISSN 0155-4131. JSTOR 41738612. Wikidata Q102496754.
  4. "Acacia hylonoma". Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants. CSIRO. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  5. "Acacia hylonoma". World Wide Wattle. Western Australian Herbarium. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  6. "International Plant Names Index:Search specific epithet hylonoma". www.ipni.org. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  7. 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.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.