Acacia nova-anglica
species of plant
Acacia nova-anglica, commonly known as New England hickory, is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is endemic to eastern Australia.
Description
Acacia nova-anglica typically grows as a bushy shrub to a height of around 3 metres (9.8 ft). It has dark grey coloured bark that is finely or deeply fissured and dark-red, angled, glabrous branchlets. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The falcate, oblanceolate to narrow-elliptically shaped phyllodes are glabrous and have a length of 5 to 14 cm (2.0 to 5.5 in) and a width of 8 to 30 mm (0.31 to 1.18 in) with an acentral but prominent midvein. It blooms from January to March and produces inflorescences with spherical flower-heads containing 15 to 25 whitish to cream-coloureds flowers that are found in groups of 5 to 13 on axillary racemes. The brown seed pods that form after flowering and straight and flat but usually have one to three deep constrictions. The pods have a length of 5 to 19 cm (2.0 to 7.5 in) and a width of 10 to 22 mm (0.39 to 0.87 in) with the seeds arranged longitudinally inside.
Distribution
It is native to an area on the New England Tableland of New South Wales from around Bendemeer in the south up to the Queensland border in the north and is particularly common in the Gibraltar Range.
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