Acacia jibberdingensis
Willow-leafed wattle
Willow-leafed wattle
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Common name: Willow-leafed wattle
Also, Jibberding wattle
Conservation status: unknown
Etymology:
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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
Roots:
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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