Acacia beckleri
| Acacia beckleri | |
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| Barrier Range wattle | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Caesalpinioideae |
| Clade: | Mimosoid clade |
| Genus: | Acacia |
| Species: | A. aemula
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| Binomial name | |
| Acacia aemula | |
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| Occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium | |
| Synonyms | |
Acacia beckleri commonly known as Barrier Range wattle,[5] is a flowering plant in the family Acacia. It is an upright or spreading shrub with green or bluish-green leaves and yellow ball flowers.
Description
[edit]Acacia beckleri is a decumbent, spreading or upright shrub 1–3 m (3 ft 3 in – 9 ft 10 in) high with reddish-brown stems and branches. The phyllodes are oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, straight or slightly curved. Leaves are green to pale green, faintly veined, 6–20 cm (2.4–7.9 in) long and 5–25 mm (0.20–0.98 in) wide, tapering at the base and rounded or pointed at the end. The 2–9 inflorescences are dark yellow balls, borne in phyllode axils, 10–17 mm (0.39–0.67 in) in diameter and up to 60 individual flowers in each globular cluster on a short, thickened, ribbed stalk. Flowering occurs from May to August and the fruit is a straight, flat, reddish-brown pod, mostly straight-sided to barely and irregularly more deeply constricted between seeds. This plant can be propagated by seed and probably also cuttings.00[3][6][7][8]
Taxonomy and naming
[edit]Barrier Range wattle was first formally described in 1965 by Mary Tindale and the description was published in Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957).[9] It is named after Dr Hermann Beckler, the botanist on the Burke and Wills expedition in 1861[10] and it was he who collected the type specimen (NSW 47447,[11] found in a "Glen to the gorge Nothungbulla, Hodgson's Basin, near the Barrier Range").[11][12] The common name refers to the Barrier Range in the Broken Hill area, western New South Wales.[6]
Distribution and habitat
[edit]Acacia beckleri grows mainly on slopes in shallow soils in the Eyre Peninsula and Flinders Ranges to Boolcoomata in South Australia and western New South Wales.[2]
See also
[edit]References
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- ^ "Acacia beckleri". Australian Plant Census. Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
- ^ a b Kodela, P. G. "Acacia beckleri Tindale". Flora of NSW. PlaNET.
- ^ a b "Acacia beckleri (Barrier Range wattle)". Global Species. Archived from the original on 2012-03-25. Retrieved 2011-09-24.
- ^ Tindale, M.D. in Eichler, Hj. (1965) Acacia beckleri. Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 173-174
- ^ Kodela, P.G. "Acacia beckleri". PlantNET-NSW Flora online. Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
- ^ a b Sheather, Warren; Gloria Sheather. "Acacia beckleri".
- ^ "Acacia beckleri Tindale Barrier Range Wattle". Atlas of Living Australia.
- ^ Simmons, Marion (1981). Acacias of Australia (First ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Thomas Nelson Australia. p. 162. ISBN 0170057798.
- ^ Tindale, M.D. (1965). Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957) (PDF). Adelaide, Australia: W.L. Hawes. p. 173. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
- ^ "Acacia beckleri". Australian Government. 1976.
- ^ a b NSW 47447, Australasian Virtual Herbarium. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
- ^ "Acacia beckleri". Australian Plant Name Index, IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. Retrieved 27 July 2019.