Acacia pycnantha, Bentham

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 85

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.293200

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Acacia pycnantha
status

 

8. A. pycnantha Bentham View in CoL , London Jour. Bot. (Hooker) 1: 351 (1842).

Tree up to 12 m; branches curved upwards; bark smooth, grey. Twigs glaucous. Phyllodes 8-20x1-3-5 cm (up to 10 cm wide on suckers and then oblique, obovate), falcate, acute, bright green, 1-veined. Capitula 8-10 mm in diameter, in long racemes of 10-20. Flowers deep yellow. Legume 80-130 x 5-6 mm, almost straight, compressed, dark brown or almost black. Funicle short, whitish. Planted for tanning, and sometimes for ornament; locally naturalized in S. Portugal and C. & S. Italy. [It Lu Sa.] (South Australia, Victoria)

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Fabales

Family

Fabaceae

Genus

Acacia

Loc

Acacia pycnantha

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. 1981
1981
Loc

A. pycnantha

Bentham 1842: 351
1842
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