Foliage type

States of this Feature refer to the foliage of mature plants.

Most Acacia species have pinnate/bipinnate leaves when seedlings. As plants mature the leaves are commonly modified into phyllodes (which occasionally are extremely poorly developed, i.e. rudimentary) or rarely to scales; occasionally foliage is entirely absent from mature plants.

Bipinnate. Compound leaves with a central axis and (one to many) secondary axes arranged on opposite sides of it (leaflets are arranged on opposite sides of the secondary axes).

If mature plants possess both phyllodes and bipinnate leaves (rare) then select Phyllodes under this Feature.