Acacia Mill.
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Nomenclature
Mill.
Mill.
1754
ICN
Acacia Mill.
genus
Acacia
Classification
Subordinates
- Acacia armata
- Acacia auriculiformis
- Acacia baileyana
- Acacia cognata
- Acacia confusa
- Acacia crassa
- Acacia cultriformis
- Acacia cyanophylla
- Acacia dealbata
- Acacia decurrens
- Acacia elata
- Acacia farnesiana
- Acacia fimbriata
- Acacia floribunda
- Acacia glauca
- Acacia karroo
- Acacia koa
- Acacia longifolia
- Acacia longissima
- Acacia lophantha
- Acacia maidenii
- Acacia mangium
- Acacia mearnsii
- Acacia melanoxylon
- Acacia nilotica
- Acacia oncinocarpa
- Acacia paradoxa
- Acacia parramattensis
- Acacia podalyriifolia
- Acacia pravissima
- Acacia prominens
- Acacia pulchella
- Acacia retinodes
- Acacia riceana
- Acacia rubida
- Acacia saligna
- Acacia schinoides
- Acacia selloi
- Acacia sieberiana
- Acacia sophorae
- Acacia stricta
- Acacia truncata
- Acacia ulicifolia
- Acacia verticillata
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Trees, shrubs or rarely herbs. Lvs either 2-paripinnate with few to numerous paired pinnae along the rachis and each pinna with usually numerous, sessile paired pinnules, or lvs reduced to simple phyllodes; glands present on petiole and rachis; stipules spinescent or membranous, often minute. Infl. a cylindric spike or globose head; spikes or heads axillary, solitary or arranged in simple or compound racemes or apparently terminal panicles; subtending bracts small, usually triangular; subtending bracteoles small, usually linear with expanded deltate apex. Fls small, actinomorphic, (3)-4-5-merous, usually yellow or cream; calyx shallowly or deeply divided; petals usually free, sometimes united at base. Stamens numerous, free, exserted; anthers uniform, versatile. Style filiform; stigma terminal. Pod 2-valved, straight, curved or twisted, dehiscent or indehiscent, few- to many-seeded; seeds with a variously folded and thickened fleshy aril.
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55a3d28f-1286-4765-b7e8-51265d12f09a
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1 January 2000
31 January 2014