Acacia frigescens

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Fabales

Familia: Fabaceae
Subfamilia: Caesalpinioideae
Tribus: Acacieae
Genus: Acacia
Species: Acacia frigescens
Name

Acacia frigescens J.H.Willis
References

in Vict. Nat. lxxiii. 158 (1957).

Acacia frigescens, commonly known as montane wattle, frosted wattle or forest wattle is a shrub or tree of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves. It is native to an area in south eastern Australia.[1]

Description

The shrub typically grows to a height of 3 to 15 metres (10 to 49 ft) and has reasonably smooth bark and glabrous branchlets. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The grey-green, leathery phyllodes have a narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate-elliptic shape with a length of 7 to 16 cm (2.8 to 6.3 in) and a width of 1.5 to 5 cm (0.59 to 1.97 in) and have three to five main longitudinal nerves.[1]
Taxonomy

The species was first formally described by the botanist James Hamlyn Willis in 1957 as part of the work Vascular flora of Victoria and South Australia (sundry new species, varieties, combinations, records and synonymies) as published in the journal The Victorian Naturalist. It was reclassified as Racosperma frigescens in 2003 then transferred back to genus Acacia in 2006.[2]

Distribution

It has a limited distribution in subalpine and montane areas in the east Gippsland region of Victoria from the north east of Melbourne to around Mount Coopracambra where it usually is part of the understorey in tall Eucalyptus forest communities often including Eucalyptus regnans.[1]
See also

List of Acacia species

References

"Acacia frigescens'". World Wide Wattle. Western Australian Herbarium. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
"Acacia frigescens J.H.Willis". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 27 October 2020.