Family: Fabaceae-Mimosoideae
Plant: An erect or spreading shrub to medium-tree up to 15m high.
Flowers: Globular heads of cream to pale yellow flowers in short axillary racemes.
Flowering: September-October.
Fruit: Pod: thin, brown, flat and straight but raised over seeds, 7-14cm long and 4-15mm wide.
Leaves: Phyllode, falcate, dark green, 7-12cm long and 1-3cm wide, asymmetric and prominently 2-veined (or occasionally 3-veined) with conspicuous marginal gland near the base.
Habitat: In rocky places in sheltered gullies in rainforest margins and wet sclerophyll forest.
Features: Asymmetric, prominently two veined phyllodes. Conspicuous marginal gland near base of phyllode.
Name:
Acacia From Greek akis = a sharp point because of the thorns on Acacia arabica, a species known from antiquity.
binervata From Latin bi = twice, nervus = a sinew or vein and atus = like (referring to its 2-veined leaves).
Type |
Tree |
|
Flowers |
Form |
Globular, Cluster |
|
Colour(s) |
Cream, Yellow |
|
Petal/Sepal No. |
- |
|
Flowering Month |
9,10 |
Fruit |
Type |
Pod |
|
Colour |
Green, Brown |
|
Other Features |
- |
Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate |
|
Type |
Simple |
|
Shape |
Sickle |
|
Length |
Medium |
|
Margins |
Entire |
|
Attachment |
Unstalked |
|
Other Features |
Oil dots/Glands |
Bark |
- |
|
Habitat |
Rainforest, Wet sclerophyll forest |