Needlebush Wattle
Young Trunk (rotated)
Needlebush Wattle
Penduncles
Animals
Plants
Info
| Needlebush Wattle Young Trunk (rotated) | | Needlebush Wattle Penduncles | | ||
Animals Plants Info |
 | Class: | Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) | ||||||||||||||
| Order: | Legumes (Fabales) | |||||||||||||||
| Family: | Legume (Fabaceae or Leguminosae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||||
| Species: | Needlebush Wattle (Acacia rigens)| This Photo: | 🔍Leaves & Buds🔎 | Other name: | Nealie | Thank you Alan Dandie (Alan_Dandie) & Tony and Jenny Dominelli (Cinclosoma) for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Riverland and elsewhere Measured phyllode ~60mm; with veins, not sharp or spiny. ~700mm high. This one is quite young and very well hidden. Maybe ~5 years old? Which would be interesting as it would have germinated in the severe 3 drought period. It's very rare for us to find a new bush species on Ellura, so finding this the other day was a huge surprise. As such, we are making this our We have a lot of Senna artemisioides ssp. filifolia around; and without any flowers this could easily be mistaken for that (particularly because we weren't expecting a new species). But now it's started flowering, it's clearly a different species. We suspect it's the 1st time it's flowered ... else we should have seen it before.
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