Acacia vittata

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 vittata
Name

Acacia vittata R.S.Cowan & Maslin, 1999
Synonyms

Racosperma vittatum (R.S.Cowan & Maslin) Pedley

Distribution
Native distribution areas:
Acacia vittata

Continental: Australasia
Regional: Australia
Western Australia

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

Cowan, R.S. & Maslin, B.R., 1999. Nuytsia; Bulletin of the Western Australian Herbarium. South Perth, W.A. 12(3): 448

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Acacia vittata in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Aug 18. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Acacia vittata. Published online. Accessed: Aug 18 2019.
Tropicos.org 2019. Acacia vittata. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 18 Aug 2019.
Catalogue of Life: 2021 Annual Checklist
Acacia vittata – Taxon details on World Wide Wattle.

Vernacular names
English: Lake Louge Wattle

Acacia vittata, commonly known as Lake Logue wattle,[1] is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic to a small area in western Australia.

Description

The dense shrub typically grows to a height of 1 to 4 metres (3 to 13 ft)[2] and has a rounded habit with longitudinally striped branchlets with green and glabrous epidermis and brownish, resinous hairy bands. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The ascending to erect, leathery and glabrous evergreen phyllodes have a narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong-elliptic shape and are straight to slightly curved with a length of 3 to 5.5 cm (1.2 to 2.2 in) and a width of 3.5 to 7 mm (0.14 to 0.28 in) and have many slightly raised main nerves some of which are resinous and white.[1] It blooms in August and produces yellow flowers.[2] The simple inflorescences occur as groups of two or three spherical flower-heads that have a diameter of 4.5 mm (0.18 in) and contain 29 to 31 golden coloured flowers. The leathery, hairy and resinous seed pods that form after flowering are quite undulate but are not constricted between the seeds and have a length of up to 3 cm (1.2 in) and a width of 4 to 5 mm (0.16 to 0.20 in) with longitudinally arranged seeds inside. The brown-black to dark brown slightly shiny seeds have a widely elliptic to oblong-elliptic shape with a length of 3 to 4 mm (0.12 to 0.16 in) with a creamy-white aril.[1]
Taxonomy

The species was first formally described by the botanists Richard Sumner Cowan and Bruce Maslin in 1999 as a part of the work Acacia miscellany 17. Miscellaneous new taxa and lectotypifications in Western Australian Acacia, mostly section Plurinerves (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) as published in the journal Nuytsia. It was reclassified in 2003 by Leslie Pedley as Racosperma vittatum, then transferred back to genus Acacia in 2006.[3] A. vittata belongs to the Acacia flavipila group of wattles and is thought to be closely related to Acacia verricula, the phyllodes closely resemble those of Acacia recurvata.[1]
Distribution

It is native to an area in the Mid West regions of Western Australia where it is commonly situated along the edges of seasonal lakes growing in sandy to sandy-clay soils.[2] It has a limited range near Eneabba especially around Lake Eneabba and is usually a part of low woodland or low open forest communities.[1]
See also

List of Acacia species

References

"Acacia vittata". World Wide Wattle. Western Australian Herbarium. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
"Acacia vittata". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
"Acacia vittata R.S.Cowan & Maslin". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 26 January 2021.