Acacia binervata

Two-veined Hickory

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).

Search Criteria

 

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