Английская Википедия:Acacia sclerophylla
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Acacia sclerophylla, commonly known as the hard-leaf wattle,[1] is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves and is endemic to southern parts of Australia.
Description
The shrub typically grows to a height of Шаблон:Convert[2] and a width of Шаблон:Cvt and has a moderately open habit.[3] It has glossy green phyllodes with an oblanceolate shape and are slightly sticky.[3] The ascending to erect phyllodes are straight to shallowly incurved with a length of Шаблон:Cvt and a width of Шаблон:Cvt.[4] It blooms from August to October and produces yellow flowers.[2] The golden-yellow spherical flowers are prolifically produced in the leaf axils.[3] Each simple inflorescence has a diameter of Шаблон:Cvt and contains 12 to 20 flowers. After flowering linear to curved to openly coiled seed pods form with a length of Шаблон:Cvt and a width of Шаблон:Cvt that contain longitudinal seeds with an oblong to oblong-ovate shape.[4]
Taxonomy
The species was first formally described by the botanist John Lindley in 1838 as part of Thomas Mitchell's work Three Expeditions into the interior of Eastern Australia. It was briefly reclassified as Racosperma sclerophyllum by Leslie Pedley in 2003 then transferred back to the genus Acacia in 2006.[5]
There are three known varieties:
- Acacia sclerophylla var. pilosa
- Acacia sclerophylla var. sclerophylla
- Acacia sclerophylla var. teretiuscula
Distribution
It is native to southern areas in South Australia and Victoria as well as an area in the Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia.[2] It is also found in south eastern parts of South Australia, eastern parts of Victoria and south eastern parts of New South Wales.[3][4]
Cultivation
The hardy and attractive species are often used for hydroseeding on roadside that can grow in a variety of soils. It requires little maintenance, is drought tolerant and frost hardy down to Шаблон:Cvt.[3]
See also
References
- Английская Википедия
- Acacia
- Acacias of Western Australia
- Flora of South Australia
- Flora of Victoria (state)
- Taxa named by John Lindley
- Flora of New South Wales
- Plants described in 1838
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