Acacia brachybotrya

1 Grey Mulga, Grey Wattle at Watson, ACT

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Identification history

Acacia brachybotrya	12 Jun 2023	abread111
Acacia buxifolia subsp. buxifolia	12 Jun 2023	CarbonAI
Acacia brachybotrya	12 Jun 2023	abread111

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7 comments

abread111 wrote:

12 Jun 2023

This has a lot of hairs, A. buxifolia does not

waltraud wrote:

13 Jun 2023

L Costermans (1994) Native Trees and Shrubs of South-Eastern Australia: sparsely hairy to glabrous phyllode. Otherwise features such as phyllode with one central vein to point and peduncles solitary or several on very short common stalks seem to confirm the id. Distribution according to Costermans South Australia; not Southern Tableland / ACT ie not a local. It is not listed on the ACT Census of Vascular Plants, and a new description for Mt Majura. I propose to collect a sample to confirm the id by a botanist and for the herbarium.

abread111 wrote:

13 Jun 2023

Waltraud
This has already been done last spring when Max found it! Isobel took samples - she did the id. See the earlier sighting. Barb

waltraud wrote:

13 Jun 2023

Thanks Barb, that escaped me. I didn't follow through with the identification because I was very sick around that time
I noted Greg Baine's record from Federal Highway from the 18 October 2022. I think this Acacia species was part of the Fed highway plantings and is possibly not a local species. Need to discuss this with Greg and other botanists. w

Tapirlord wrote:

13 Jun 2023

No this acacia is not local.

waltraud wrote:

13 Jun 2023

Thanks, C, I thought so after doing a bit of research. Can CNM remove it from the list of local species?

abread111 wrote:

13 Jun 2023

Isobel was of the opinion that it could have found its own way there, so that is why it was left there last spring.

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