Prickly Moses at Jerrabomberra, ACT
Identification history
| Acacia ulicifolia | 17 Aug 2018 | Mike | ||
| Acacia siculiformis | 15 Aug 2018 | rainer |
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5 comments
rainer
wrote:
16 Aug 2018
Acacia siculiformis, Dagger Wattle. The flattened asymmetrical curved phyllodes are diagnostic.
Mike
wrote:
16 Aug 2018
This has been identified twice before as A. ulicifolia. The glands are only a mm or so from the base as shown in Acacias of South East Australia by Terry Tame. A. siculiformis has small gland 'near the centre of the phyllode'. I have always used the taper of the phyllode (widest at the gland) to determine A. ulicifolia. Do we have to check all of the identifications on CNM and reinstate A. ulicifolia as uncommon or rare?
rainer
wrote:
16 Aug 2018
After some due consideration, I will concede this to be A. ulicifolia. My problem was that I was looking at this without a sense of scale. Notes accompanying photos would benefit by a statement such as this: “length of phyllodes is ...”
Mike
wrote:
16 Aug 2018
Length of phyllodes to 15mm. I will have to put a ruler in my backpack. Betty Wood also makes the same comment about reporting scale. I think the curved phyllodes near the end of the branchlets are due to disease, possibly viral infection, killing off A. ulicifolia in this area.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.127500-35.388611
- Altitude 692.0m
- Maps Isaacs Ridge Isaacs Ridge and Nearby
- Places Jerrabomberra, ACT
Sighting information
Additional information
- True In flower
- 30cm to 1 metre Plant height
Species information
- Acacia ulicifolia Scientific name
- Prickly Moses Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1193.98m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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In flower
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