Acacia muelleriana

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 muelleriana
Name

Acacia muelleriana Maiden & R.T.Baker, 1894
Synonyms

Racosperma muellerianum (Maiden & R.T.Baker) Pedley

Distribution
Native distribution areas:
Acacia muelleriana

Continental: Australasia
Regional: Australia
New South Wales, Queensland

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Primary references

Maiden, J.H. & Baker, R.T., 1894. Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales ser. 2, viii. (June 1894) 515, t. 25.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Acacia muelleriana in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Aug 09. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Acacia muelleriana. Published online. Accessed: Aug 09 2019.
Tropicos.org 2019. Acacia muelleriana. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 09 Aug 2019.
Catalogue of Life: 2021 Annual Checklist
Acacia muelleriana – Taxon details on World Wide Wattle.

Vernacular names

Acacia muelleriana is a species of Acacia native to eastern Australia.[3]

Description

The shrub or tree typically grows to a height of 1.5 to 8 m (4 ft 11 in to 26 ft 3 in) and has angled to terete, ridged and glabrous branchlets that have smooth grey bark. The filiform and glabrous leaves have a rachis that is 0.7 to 2 cm (0.28 to 0.79 in) and has one or two, or sometimes three pairs of pinnae that are made up of four to ten pairs of widely spaced pinnules with a linear shape and a length of 8 to 37 mm (0.31 to 1.46 in) and a width of 0.5 to 1.5 mm (0.020 to 0.059 in). The plant blooms between August and December and produces simple inflorescences that occur in terminal panicles with spherical flower-heads with a diameter of 3 to 5 mm (0.12 to 0.20 in) containing 5 to 14 cream-coloured flowers. The thinly leathery and glabrous seed pods that form after flowering are more or less flat and are straight to curved and irregularly constricted between the seeds. The pods have a length of 2.5 to 13 cm (0.98 to 5.12 in) and a width of 5.5 to 7 mm (0.22 to 0.28 in) containing longitudinally arranged seeds.[3]
Etymology & naming

Joseph Maiden and Richard Baker first described the species in 1893 from a specimen found at the "Foot of ranges forming the southern watershed of the western branches of the Hunter River, New South Wales", and gave it the specific epithet, muelleriana, to honour Ferdinand von Mueller.[2]
Distribution

It is endemic to central parts of New South Wales from around the Goonoo Forest and the Mudgee district in the south. It is found in a variety of habitat usually around sandstone as a part of dry sclerophyll forest communities.[3]
See also

List of Acacia species

References

"Acacia muellerina". Australian Plant Name Index, IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
Maiden, J.H.; Baker, R.T. (1893). "Description of a new species of Acacia". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Series 2. 8 (4). p. 515, t. xxv.
P.G. Kodela (2002). "Acacia muelleriana Maiden & R.T.Baker". PlantNET. Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Retrieved 5 September 2016.