Acacia cana Maiden
WATTLE
Acacias of Australia
Common Name
Boree, Broad-leaved Nealie, Cabbage-tree Wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Distribution
Disjunct, occurring in the Adavale area, southern central Qld and on the western plains of N.S.W. west of Enngonia and N of Wilcannia.
Description
Shrub or tree to 6 m high with dense spreading crown. Branchlets densely silvery appressed-puberulous, glabrescent. Phyllodes erect, linear to linear-elliptic, straight, (3–) 5–13 cm long, (1.5–) 2–5 mm wide, acuminate, ±pungent, rigid, densely silvery appressed-puberulous but hairs confined to between nerves with age, with numerous closely parallel indistinct nerves. Inflorescences normally 2–5-headed racemes; raceme axes 1–6 (–10) mm long; peduncles (3–) 4–8 mm long, appressed-puberulous; hairs golden ageing silvery; heads globular, 4.5 mm diam., 25–30-flowered, bright yellow. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free to 1/2-united. Pods linear, constricted between and slightly raised over seeds, to 10 cm long, (3–) 4–6 (–8) mm wide, coriaceous to chartaceous, longitudinally reticulate, densely appressed-puberulous. Seeds longitudinal.
Habitat
Grows along watercourses on gibber plains and on sandhills as pure stands of scattered trees and in mixed woodland.
Specimens
Qld: ‘Avonvilla’, N of Adavale, 11 Apr. 1961, R.G.Wilson (K). N.S.W.: White Cliffs road, P.E.Conrick 1468 (PERTH); 5.6 km NNW of Mt Shannon HS, 28 km SSW of Milparinka, J.Pickard & J.C.de Nardi 792 (CANB n.v., K, NSW).
Notes
As discussed by L.Pedley, Austrobaileya 1: 341–343 (1981), A. tephrina was formerly included within the concept of A. cana in Qld.
FOA Reference
Data derived from Flora of Australia Volumes 11A (2001), 11B (2001) and 12 (1998), products of ABRS, ©Commonwealth of Australia
Author
R.S.Cowan, B.R.Maslin
Minor edits by B.R.Maslin & J.Rogers
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