Acacia dodonaeifolia

Acacia dodonaeifolia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Acacia
Species:
A. dodonaeifolia
Binomial name
Acacia dodonaeifolia
Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms[1]
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Habit in the Barcelona Botanic Gardens

Acacia dodonaeifolia, commonly known as sticky wattle or hop bush wattle,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-east of continental Australia. It is a sticky glabrous shrub or tree narrowly elliptic phyllodes, spherical heads of bright yellow flowers and linear, thinly leathery pods.

Description

Acacia dodonaeifolia is a sticky, glabrous shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of 2–6 m (6 ft 7 in – 19 ft 8 in) and has varnished branchlets when young. The phyllodes are usually narrowly elliptic, 40–80 mm (1.6–3.1 in) long and 5–11 mm (0.20–0.43 in) wide, glabrous, slightly roughened with prominent midrib with two or three glands up to 5 mm (0.20 in) above the base of the phyllode. The flowers are borne in two or three spherical heads in axils on peduncles 7–15 mm (0.28–0.59 in) long, each head with 36 to 46 bright yellow flowers. Flowering occurs between July and November, and the pods are linear, thinly leathery, up to 130 mm (5.1 in) long, 5–7 mm (0.20–0.28 in) wide and light brown. The seeds are oblong to elliptic, shiny dark brown, 4.3–5 mm (0.17–0.20 in) long with a folded aril on the end.[2][3][4][5][6]

Taxonomy

This species was first formally described in 1806 by the Christiaan Hendrik Persoon and given the name Mimosa dodonaeifolia in the his Synopsis plantarum.[7][8] In 1813, Giovanni Battista Balbis transferred the species to Acacia as A. dodonaeifolia.[9] The specific epithet (dodonaeifolia) means having leaves like a dodonaea.[6]

Distribution and habitat

Sticky wattle usually grows in sand or loam in Eucalyptus woodland in open forest in scattered locations from the Eyre Peninsula to Naracoorte and Keith in South Australia and the west of Victoria.[2][5]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Acacia dodonaeifolia". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 14 October 2025.
  2. ^ a b c Maslin, Bruce R. Kodela, Phillip G. (ed.). "Acacia dodonaeifolia". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. Retrieved 14 October 2025.
  3. ^ "Acacia dodonaeifolia". Australian Biological Resources Study. Retrieved 14 October 2025.
  4. ^ "Acacia dodonaeifolia". World Wide Wattle. Retrieved 14 October 2025.
  5. ^ a b "Acacia dodonaeifolia". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 14 October 2025.
  6. ^ a b "Acacia dodonaeifolia". Seeds of South Australia. Retrieved 14 October 2025.
  7. ^ "Mimosa dodonaeifolia". APNI. Retrieved 14 October 2025.
  8. ^ Persoon, Christiaan H. (1806). Synopsis plantarum,seu Enchiridium botanicum, complectens enumerationem systematicam specierum hucusque cognitarum. Paris: C.F. Cramerum. p. 261. Retrieved 14 October 2025.
  9. ^ "Acacia dodonaeifolia". APNI. Retrieved 14 October 2025.
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