Acacia ammobia explained

Acacia ammobia, commonly known as the Mount Connor wattle,[1] or Mount Conner wattle,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to areas near the border between South Australia and the Northern Territory. It is a shrub or small tree with linear phyllodes, flowers arranged in 1 or 2 spikes on side shoots, each spike with densely crowded yellow flowers. The fruit is a linear pods long with dar brown seeds.

Description

Acacia ammobia is a shrub or small tree that typically grows to high and has fibrous bark. Its phyllodes are linear, flat, long, wide and leathery, tapering at both ends. There is a conspicuous gland from the base of the phyllode. The flowers are yellow, and arranged in 1 or 2 densely flowered, cylindrical spikes long. Flowering occurs from August to October, and the fruit is a dark brown, leathery, linear pod, long and wide containing dark brown, flattened seeds long.[3]

Taxonomy

Acacia ammobia was first formally described by the botanist John Maconochie in 1978 in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens from specimens he collected about east of Ayers Rock in 1972.[4] [5] The specific epithet (ammobia) is a Latin word meaning 'sand dweller'.[6]

Distribution and habitat

Mount Conner wattle is found in arid parts of inland Australia where it has a limited distribution in the north-western parts of South Australia and southern parts of the Northern Territory between and west of Uluru, where it is often grows on the upper slopes of hills and ranges in sandy or gravelly soils on upper slopes of ranges.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Acacia ammobia, Mt. Connor Wattle. 13 September 2016. 2014. Government of South Australia.
  2. Web site: Court . Arthur B. . Maslin . Bruce R. . Kodela . Phillip G. . Acacia ammobia . Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra . 8 July 2024.
  3. Web site: Acacia ammobia. 9 July 2024. World Wide Wattle. Western Australian Herbarium.
  4. Web site: Acacia ammobia. APNI. 8 July 2024.
  5. Maconochie . John . Notes on the genus Acacia in the Northern Territory. . Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens . 1978 . 1 . 3 . 180–181 . 8 July 2024.
  6. Book: Stearn . William T. . Botanical Latin - History, Grammar, Syntax, Terminology and Vocabulary . 1992 . Timber Press . Portland, Oregon . 367.