Fabaceae
Acacia

Acacia saligna (Labill.) H.L.Wendl.

First published in Comm. Acac. Aphyll.: 26 (1820)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is SW. Australia. It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the subtropical biome. It is has environmental uses, as animal food and for fuel and food.

Descriptions

M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS

Morphology General Habit
Unarmed shrub or tree up to 10 m high; young branchlets glabrous
Morphology Leaves
Leaves phyllodic, simple, mostly 8–22 x 0.5–1.4 cm, straight or slightly falcate, with a single main longitudinal nerve and finely penninerved
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Flowers bright yellow in heads more than 6.5 mm in diam. on peduncles 6–22 mm long; heads arranged in axillary racemes
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods straight or slightly falcate, margins slightly constricted between some of the seeds, 5.5–15 x 0.5–0.6 cm.
Distribution
Cultivated at least in N1 native in Australia.
[FSOM]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Cultivated
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Shrub/Tree
Vernacular
Blue-leafed Wattle, Golden Wreath Wattle, Orange Wattle, Port Jackson Willow, Western Australian Golden Watt
[ILDIS]

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds Protein Content

26.80% Entire seed/nut. Moisture content not stated (Barclay & Earle, 1974)

[SID]

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Distribution
Biogeografic region: Andean. Colombian departments: Bogotá DC.
Conservation
IUCN Red List Assessment (2021): LC.
[UPFC]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/18435881/186000209

Conservation
LC - least concern
[IUCN]

Leguminosae, J.P.M. Brenan. Flora Zambesiaca 3:1. 1970

Morphology General Habit
Shrub or small tree up to 6 m. high, unarmed; young branchlets angular, glabrous.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves phyllodic, apparently simple, mostly c. 6-20 x 0.5-1.5 (lower to 3.5 or more) cm., linear-lanceolate to linear, with a single midrib and finely but distinctly penninerved, glabrous, straight or slightly falcate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers yellow, in heads 6-12 mm. in diam. on peduncles 7-22 mm. long, the heads arranged in short axillary racemes.
[FZ]

Uses

Use
Cultivated
[FSOM]

Use
Chemical products, Domestic, Environmental, Forage, Weed, Wood
[ILDIS]

Use Animal Food
Used as animal food.
Use Environmental
Environmental uses.
Use Fuel
Used for fuels.
Use Food
Used for food.
Use Materials
Used as material.
[UPFC]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • International Legume Database and Information Service

    • International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Seed Information Database

    • Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. (2019) Seed Information Database (SID). Version 7.1. Available from: http://data.kew.org/sid/ (September 2019)
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Wood Anatomy Microscope Slides

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

  • World Checklist of Vascular plants (WCVP)

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0