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''Acacia ammobia'', commonly known as the Mount Connor wattle, or Mount Conner wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family
The Australasian Virtual Herbarium – Distribution of ''Acacia ammobia''
{{Taxonbar, from=Q15289383 ammobia Fabales of Australia Flora of the Northern Territory Flora of South Australia Plants described in 1978
''Acacia ammobia'', commonly known as the Mount Connor wattle, or Mount Conner wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae
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and is endemic
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to areas near the border between South Australia
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and the Northern Territory
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. It is a shrub or small tree with linear phyllode
Phyllodes are modified petiole (botany), petioles or leaf stems, which are leaf-like in appearance and function. In some plants, these become flattened and widened, while the leaf itself becomes reduced or vanishes altogether. Thus the phyllode co ...
s, flowers arranged in 1 or 2 spikes on side shoots, each spike with densely crowded yellow flowers. The fruit is a linear pods long with dar brown seeds.
Description
''Acacia ammobia'' is a shrub or small tree that typically grows to high and has fibrous bark. Its phyllodes are linear, flat, long, wide and leathery, tapering at both ends. There is a conspicuousgland
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from the base of the phyllode. The flowers are yellow, and arranged in 1 or 2 densely flowered, cylindrical spikes long. Flowering occurs from August to October, and the fruit is a dark brown, leathery, linear pod, long and wide containing dark brown, flattened seeds long.
Taxonomy
''Acacia ammobia'' was first formally described by the botanistJohn Maconochie
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in 1978 in the ''Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens
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'' from specimens he collected about east of Ayers Rock
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in 1972. The specific epithet
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(''ammobia'') is a Latin
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word meaning 'sand dweller'.
Distribution and habitat
Mount Conner wattle is found in arid parts of inlandAustralia
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where it has a limited distribution in the north-western parts of South Australia and southern parts of the Northern Territory between and west of Uluru
Uluru (; ), also known as Ayers Rock ( ) and officially gazetted as UluruAyers Rock, is a large sandstone monolith. It outcrop, crops out near the centre of Australia in the southern part of the Northern Territory, south-west of Alice Spri ...
, where it is often grows on the upper slopes of hills and ranges in sandy or gravelly soils on upper slopes of ranges.
See also
* List of ''Acacia'' speciesReferences
External links
The Australasian Virtual Herbarium – Distribution of ''Acacia ammobia''
{{Taxonbar, from=Q15289383 ammobia Fabales of Australia Flora of the Northern Territory Flora of South Australia Plants described in 1978