Description ³

The glabrous and open shrub typically grows to a height of 1.0 to 2.5 metres (3 to 8 ft) and to a width of around 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in). The lightly pruinose branchlets are often a dark red-brown in colour. The thick, dark green, ascending to erect phyllodes have a straight narrowly linear shape with a length of 3 to 8 cm (1.2 to 3.1 in) and a width of 1 to 5 mm (0.039 to 0.197 in). It blooms from July to December and produces yellow flowers. The inflorescences appear in clusters of two or three along a 1 to 7 mm (0.039 to 0.276 in) long stalk. The spherical flower-heads contain 16 to 22 golden flowers. The erect dark brown seed pods that form after flowering resemble a string of beads and are up to around 7 cm (2.8 in) in length and 4 to 5 mm (0.16 to 0.20 in) wide. The seeds within the pods are a dull light brown colour and have an oblong shape with an orange to red aril.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Ralph Foster, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Ralph Foster
2. (c) bioblitz2015, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by bioblitz2015
3. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia_cupularis

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Atlas of Living Australia
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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