Acacia jibberdingensis

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Plant information 

Common name:               Willow-leafed wattle  

• Also, Jibberding wattle 

Conservation status:   unknown

Etymology:   

• x

Flowers:                  

• It blooms from June to October producing bright yellow perfumed flower-spikes

• The simple inflorescences occur singly in the axils with flower-spikes 

• They are 20 to 35 mm in length with a diameter of 6 mm loosely packed with golden flowers

Fruit:                         

• The thinly coriaceous and glabrous seed pods that form after flowering resemble a string of beads are up to 21 cm in length and have a width of 5 to 7 mm 

• The glossy, black seeds are longitudinally arranged in the pods and have a broadly elliptic shape with a length of 4.5 to 5.5 mm with a pitted areole

Leaves:         

• Ascending evergreen phyllodes with a flat linear shape that is straight to slightly curved

• The glabrous phyllodes are 15 to 32 cm in length with a diameter of 1 to 1.5 mm

Stem & branches:       

• It has angled slightly hairy branchlets 

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Roots:         

• x

Habit:        

• The shrub or tree is slender and erect 

• Typically grows to a height of 1.5 to 7 metres and a width of around 5 m

Habitat:   

• Among granite outcrops growing is sandy loamy soils 

• Also found in shrubland communities

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to Western Australia

• It is native to an area in the Mid West, Wheatbelt and Goldfields regions of Western Australia 

• The population is scattered from Mullewa and Jingemarra Station in the north down to around Peak Charles National Park in the south east 

Species:                     

• World:            S,    G

• Australia:      S,    G

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy

  • The species was first formally described by the botanists Joseph Maiden and William Blakely in 1927 as part of the work Descriptions of fifty new species and six varieties of western and northern Australian Acacias, and notes on four other species as published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia

  • It was reclassified as Racosperma jibberdingense by Leslie Pedley in 2003 then was transferred back to genus Acacia in 2006

  • The type specimen was collected by M.Koch in 1960 at Jibberding near Dalwallinu

• Cultivation

  • It is available for cultivation in seed form but the seeds must scarified prior to planting

  • It grows best in well-drained soils in a sunny position and is both frost and drought tolerant