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Scale bar 10mm. Copyright CSIRO
Fruit, three views and seeds. Copyright W. T. Cooper
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10th leaf stage. Copyright CSIRO
Cotyledon stage, epigeal germination. Copyright CSIRO
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Acacia cincinnata
Family
Mimosaceae
Botanical Name
Acacia cincinnata F.Muell.
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1879) Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 11: 35. Type: Ad sinum oceanicum Rockinghams Bay et in insula Goulds Island; Dallachy..
Synonyms
Racosperma cincinnatum (F.Muell.) Pedley, Austrobaileya 2(4): 347(1987), Type: ?.
Common name
Circle Fruit Salwood; Daintree Wattle; Wattle; Wattle, Daintree
Stem
Usually encountered as a small tree but recorded to 60 cm dbh. Inner blaze very fibrous and stringy.
Leaves
Leaves phyllodineous. Leaf blades about 11-16 x 16-3 cm. A gland usually visible on the upper side of the leaf blade-petiole junction. Terminal buds and young leaves clothed in silky, prostrate, golden hairs which turn silver with age. Veins longitudinal, +/- parallel, anastomosing, three veins usually more prominent than the rest, running into each other near the base.
Flowers
Spikes cream or very pale yellow, about 3.5 cm long, interrupted, on peduncles about 0.5 cm long. Spikes in pairs in the upper axils, peduncle and axis clothed in golden hairs. Calyx densely pubescent, about 0.6 mm long. Corolla about 1.4-1.8 mm long, glabrous, deeply lobed. Stamens about 2.5 mm long. Ovary densely hairy, but glabrous when rudimentary.
Fruit
Pod linear, tightly coiled about five times to form a tight spiral. Seeds shiny black, longitudinal, about 3.6 x 2 mm. Funicle orange, rather fine, encircling the seed. The remains of the tightly coiled spiral seed pods normally present beneath mature trees.
Seedlings
Cotyledons oblong, ovate or obovate, about 5 mm long. First leaf pinnate, second leaf bipinnate. By the third or fourth leaf stage: leaves bipinnate, petiole broadly flattened. At the tenth leaf stage: leaves phyllodineous, narrowly elliptic, slightly unequal-sided at the base, glabrous or nearly so when mature, usually 3 main veins run from base to apex; stipules very small, visible only with a lens.
Distribution and Ecology
Endemic to Queensland, occurs in NEQ (between Rossville and Ingham) and south-eastern Queensland but not in coastal central Queensland. Altitudinal range from near sea level to 800 m. Grows on the edge of rain forest and in rain forest regrowth but also found in open forest, particularly in swampy areas.
NEQ
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Tree
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RFK Code
487