Acacia aprepta explained

Acacia aprepta, commonly known as Miles mulga,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Queensland. It is a spreading tree with furrowed bark, linear flat or slightly curved phyllodes, up to 3 spikes of yellow flowers, and linear, papery pods up to about long.

Description

Acacia aprepta is a spreading tree that typically grows to a height of up to and has dark, furrowed bark. Its phyllodes are linear, flat or slightly curved, long, wide, leathery and olive green. The flowers are borne in up to 3 spikes long in the axils of phyllodes and are yellow. Flowering mostly occurs from October to January, and the pods are light brown, papery, linear or very narrowly oblong and raised over the seeds, long and about wide. The seeds are dark brown, long.[2] [3]

Taxonomy

Acacia aprepta was first formally described in 1974 by Leslie Pedley in Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium.[4]

Distribution and habitat

This species of Acacia grows in thickets or dense populaions in the western parts of the Darling Downs and around Maranoa, where it grows in shallow gravelly or loamy sandy soils often over sandstone.[2]

Conservation status

Acacia aprepta is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.[5]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tindale . Mary D. . Kodela . Phillip G. . Kodela . Phillip G. . Acacia aprepta . Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra . 7 October 2024.
  2. Web site: Acacia aprepta Pedley. 24 August 2019. 11 September 2018. World Wide Wattle. Western Australian Herbarium.
  3. Pedley . Leslie . Notes on Acacia, chiefly from Queensland, IV. . Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium . 1974 . 15 . 5–6 . 7 October 2024.
  4. Web site: Acacia aprepta . Australian Plant Name Index . 7 October 2024.
  5. Web site: Acacia aprepta . Queensland Government Department of Education and Science . 8 October 2024.