| Yarrabah wattle | |
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| P03622726[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Caesalpinioideae |
| Clade: | Mimosoid clade |
| Genus: | Acacia |
| Species: | A. hylonoma
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| Binomial name | |
| Acacia hylonoma | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
Acacia hylonoma, commonly known as Yarrabah wattle,[4] is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic to a small area of north eastern Australia.
Description[edit]
The tree can grow to be as tall as 15 m (49 ft) in height with a trunk that is 20 cm (7.9 in) dbh[5] with yellowish brown coloured bark.[4] It has glabrous and lenticellate branchlets. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The thinly leathery, glabrous and evergreen phyllodes have a narrowly elliptic shape and are straight to shallowly recurved. The phyllodes have a length of 8 to 15 cm (3.1 to 5.9 in) and a width of 7 to 25 mm (0.28 to 0.98 in) and have sox to eleven main nerves with many longitudinally anastomosing minor nerves in between.[5]
Distribution[edit]
It is native to a small area in northern Queensland just south east of Cairns where it is a part of rainforest communities.[5] It is found in only a few localities that range in altitude from sea level up to 400 m (1,300 ft) in well developed upland and lowland rain forest. It grows well in disturbed areas and is a component of rain forest regrowth.[4]
Etymology[edit]
The first use of hylonoma as a specific epithet was in 1916 for Salix hylonoma,[6] where the epithet is described as being derived from the Greek, hylonomos, and means "living in woods"[7]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Acacia hylonoma P03622726". GBIF. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
- ^ "Acacia hylonoma". Australian Plant Name Index, IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
- ^ L. Pedley (1978). "A revision of Acacia Mill. in Queensland". Austrobaileya. 1 (2): 214. ISSN 0155-4131. JSTOR 41738612. Wikidata Q102496754.
- ^ a b c F.A.Zich; B.P.M.Hyland; T.Whiffen; R.A.Kerrigan (2020). "Acacia hylonoma". Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Edition 8 (RFK8). Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR), Australian Government. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- ^ a b c "Acacia hylonoma". World Wide Wattle. Western Australian Herbarium. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
- ^ "International Plant Names Index:Search specific epithet hylonoma". www.ipni.org. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
- ^ Schneider, C.K (1916). "Salix hylonoma". Plantae Wilsonianae: An Enumeration of the Woody Plants Collected in Western China for the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University During the Years 1907, 1908, and 1910. 3: 69.