Biology:Acacia hylonoma

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Short description: Species of legume

Yarrabah wattle
Acacia hylonoma P03622726.jpg
P03622726[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Acacia
Species:
A. hylonoma
Binomial name
Acacia hylonoma
Pedley[2][3]
Acacia hylonomaDistMap448.png
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

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

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

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

References

  1. "Acacia hylonoma P03622726". GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/438049491. 
  2. "Acacia hylonoma". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/64617. 
  3. , pp. 214 , Wikidata Q102496754
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Acacia hylonoma". Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR), Australian Government. 2020. https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/entities/Acacia_hylonoma.htm. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Acacia hylonoma". World Wide Wattle. Western Australian Herbarium. http://worldwidewattle.com/speciesgallery/hylonoma.php. 
  6. "International Plant Names Index:Search specific epithet hylonoma". https://www.ipni.org/?q=species:hylonoma. 
  7. 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. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/420872. 

Wikidata ☰ Q15287321 entry