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Acacia pentadenia - Wikipedia

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Karri wattle

A. pentadenia habit
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Caesalpinioideae
Clade:	Mimosoid clade
Genus:	Acacia
Species:	A. pentadenia
Binomial name
*Acacia pentadenia* Lindl.

Occurrence data from AVH

Acacia pentadenia, commonly known as karri wattle, is a shrub or tree of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Pulchellae.^[1]

Description

The slender willowy shrub or tree typically grows to a height of 2 to 5 metres (7 to 16 ft).^[1] The slender erect habit forms a dense crown of evergreen foliage.^[2] The branchlets are normally glabrous and ribbed.^[3] The feather like phyllodes^[2] are large made up of two to five pairs of pinnae with the larger being 25 to 80 millimetres (1.0 to 3.1 in) in length. The pinnae are made from 12 to 30 pairs of glabrous green pinnules that are only 3 to 6 mm (0.118 to 0.236 in) long and 1 to 2.5 mm (0.039 to 0.098 in) wide.^[3] It blooms from July to December and produces cream-yellow flowers.^[1] The flowers are supported in inflorescences that normally contain 15 to 25 flowers. It will later form seed pods that are around 60 mm (2.4 in) long and 3 to 4 mm (0.12 to 0.16 in) containing oblong seeds. The plants are sometimes known as cat bush from there offensive odour.^[3]

Classification

The species was first formally described by the botanist John Lindley in 1833 as part of the work The Botanical Register^[3] using specimens collected around the Swan River Colony by James Drummond. The species is similar in appearance to Acacia subracemosa and both belong to the Acacia brownii group.^[3]

There is two recognised subspecies:

Acacia pentadenia Lindl. subsp. pentadenia^[4]
Acacia pentadenia subsp. syntoma J.E.Reid, Ward.-Johnson & Maslin^[5]

Distribution

It is native to an area in the South West and Great Southern regions of Western Australia.^[1] It is commonly found from around Nannup south east to around Denmark with another population near Albany.

Ecology

A. pentadenia prefers sand or loamy soils and is usually part of the understorey in karri (Eucalyptus diversicolor) forests or karri-marri (Corymbia calophylla) forests where it can forms dense stands.^[3] Other associated species include Agonis flexuosa, Allocasuarina decussata and Chorilaena quercifolia as well as a host of wild flowers. Karri forests are home to some 2000 plant taxa.^[6]

Cultivation

The seeds for the plant are commercially available.^[2]^[7] The shrub is best suited to temperate climates. It grows well in sheltered semi-shade areas and in medium to heavy soils. It is both drought and frost tender.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Acacia pentadenia". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Acacia pentadenia Kari wattle". Australian Seed. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Acacia pentadenia". WorldWideWattle. Western Australian Herbarium. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
^ "Acacia pentadenia Lindl. subsp. pentadenia". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
^ "Acacia pentadenia. subsp. syntoma". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
^ "karri Forest". Gondwana Link. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
^ "Acacia pentadenia". Nindethana. Retrieved 15 August 2018.

Taxon identifiers
Acacia pentadenia	Wikidata: Q9567915 Wikispecies: Acacia pentadenia APNI: 200400 CoL: 8PTH EoL: 643417 FloraBase: 3484 FoAO2: Acacia pentadenia GBIF: 2978989 GRIN: 957 iNaturalist: 550016 IPNI: 471115-1 IUCN: 172927486 NCBI: 198753 Open Tree of Life: 848687 Plant List: ild-31584 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:471115-1 Tropicos: 13024337 WFO: wfo-0000185365

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