''Acacia spania'', also known as western rosewood,
is a tree belonging to the genus ''
Acacia
''Acacia'', commonly known as wattles or acacias, is a genus of about of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa, South America, and Austral ...
'' and the subgenus ''Juliflorae'' that is
endemic
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to north eastern
Australia
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.
Description
The single stemmed tree that can grow to a height of around and has iron type style bark. The
glabrous
Glabrousness () is the technical term for a lack of hair, down, setae, trichomes, or other such covering. A glabrous surface may be a natural characteristic of all or part of a plant or animal, or be due to loss because of a physical condition, ...
and angular branchlets have a light brown colour and are usually scurfy. Like most species of ''Acacia'' it has
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 rather than true leaves. The glabrous and evergreen phyllodes have a narrowly elliptic to elliptic shape and are flat and straight to slightly curved. The phyllodes have a length of and a width of . The grey green to blue-green are quite stiff phyllodes and have three to five main longitudinal nerves.
[ It blooms between August and September][ producing cylindrical flower-spikes that are in length][
]
Distribution
It is found in a small area of inland east-central Queensland
Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...
mostly from a couple of localities around Emerald
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where it is situated in red soils often present as dense stands as a part of woodland communities where it is often associated with species of ''Eucalyptus
''Eucalyptus'' () is a genus of more than 700 species of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae. Most species of ''Eucalyptus'' are trees, often Mallee (habit), mallees, and a few are shrubs. Along with several other genera in the tribe Eucalyp ...
''[ and other species of ''Acacia''. The tree is usually found among rocky sandstone ridges and on hills in sandy to loamy soils at altitudes of over an area of around approximately from north of ]Aramac
Aramac is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Barcaldine Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Aramac had a population of 372 people.
Geography
Aramac is located north of Barcaldine, Queensl ...
to about Roma
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in the south.[
]
See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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spania
Spania () was a Roman province, province of the Eastern Roman Empire from 552 until 624 in the south of the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands. It was established by the List of Byzantine emperors, Emperor Justinian I in an effort to res ...
Endemic flora of Queensland
Plants described in 1978
Taxa named by Leslie Pedley