Acacia lazaridis
| Acacia lazaridis | |
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| Between Camooweal and Mount Isa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Caesalpinioideae |
| Clade: | Mimosoid clade |
| Genus: | Acacia |
| Species: | A. lazaridis |
| Binomial name | |
| Acacia lazaridis | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
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Acacia lazaridis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to north-eastern Queensland, Australia. It is a shrub with more or less flattened branchlets with prominent ridges, narrowly oblong, elliptic to narrowly egg-shaped phyllodes, spikes of yellow flowers and narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped or elliptic, pods.
Description
Acacia lazaridis is a glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.5–2.5 m (1 ft 8 in – 8 ft 2 in) and has more or less flattened maroon-brown branchlets with prominent ridges, usually covered with a powdery white coating, later becoming grey. Its phyllodes are narrowly oblong, elliptic to narrowly egg-shaped, mostly 3–6.5 mm (0.12–0.26 in) long, 7–30 mm (0.28–1.18 in) wide, stiff and leathery with three prominent longitudinal veins. The flowers are yellow and borne in spikes 10–20 mm (0.39–0.79 in) long on peduncles mostly 10–20 mm (0.39–0.79 in) long. Flowering occurs from February to November, and the pods are narrowy elliptic or lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base to elliptic, 3.4–5.8 mm (0.13–0.23 in) long, often dark purplish or reddish-brown, opening and curling back from the end. The seeds are oblong, 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long and dark brown with a narrowly conical aril.[2][3][4]
Taxonomy
Acacia lazaridis was first formally described in 1981 by Leslie Pedley in the journal Austrobaileya, replacing Bentham's synonym Acacia aulacocarpa var. brevifolia.[5][6] The specific epithet (lazaridis) honours Michael Lazarides who worked at the Australian National Herbarium.[6][7]
Distribution and habitat
This species of wattle grows in gravelly red earth or shallow sandy soil in open forest, woodland or scrub with otherAcacia and Triodia species on sandstone, granite or metamorphic rocks in the Cook and Kennedy districts, Queensland, often on the slopes of the Great Dividing Range.[2][3]
Conservation status
Acacia lazaridis in listed as 'least concern' under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.[8]
See also
References
- 1 2 "Acacia lazaridis". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 24 July 2026.
- 1 2 Tindale, Mary D.; Kodela, Phillip G. "Acacia lazaridis". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. Retrieved 24 July 2026.
- 1 2 "Acacia lazaridis". WorldWideWattle. Western Australian Herbarium. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
- ↑ Tindale, Mary D.; Kodela, Phillip G. "Acacia lazaridis". Australian Biological Resources Study. Retrieved 24 July 2026.
- ↑ "Acacia lazaridis". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 24 July 2026.
- 1 2 Pedley, Leslie (1981). "Further notes on Acacia in Queensland". Austrobaileya. 1 (4): 341. Retrieved 24 July 2026.
- ↑ "Lazarides, Michael (Mike) (1928 - 2011)". Council of the Heads of Australasian Herbaria. Retrieved 24 July 2026.
- ↑ "Taxon - Acacia lazaridis". Queensland Government WildNet. Retrieved 25 July 2026.