Prickly Moses at Majura, ACT
Identification history
| Acacia ulicifolia | 29 Sep 2023 | natureguy | ||
| Acacia genistifolia | 29 Sep 2023 | waltraud | ||
| Acacia boormanii | 28 Sep 2023 | CarbonAI | ||
| Acacia genistifolia | 28 Sep 2023 | abread111 |
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User's notes
on the north facing slope of a dry gully, one shrub looking very stressed and the other not much better
4 comments
waltraud
wrote:
29 Sep 2023
It could be A ulicifolia. They have very tiny fine stipules at the base of phyllodes; I need a magnifying glass or look with the bright sky as a background to see them; however sometimes I found that not all phyllodes of one specimen have stipules or they are so tiny that I couldn't find them but then other phyllodes in the same specimen might have them clearly visible. The phyllodes of A ulicifolia are a bit wider at the base which gives them a triangular shape with a very small angle at the top. The A ulicifolia i spotted on Mts Majura and Ainslie often seem to struggle and quite often seem to be affected by a fungus (?) that deforms the wooden stems and seems to affect the health of the plant; see for instance https://canberra.naturemapr.org/sightings/4511475.
Tapirlord
wrote:
29 Sep 2023
Agree a good call. Waltraud I’m a tad unsure why you confirmed A.genistifolia in the first place?
waltraud
wrote:
29 Sep 2023
ups I didn't intend; I suggested ulicifolia but must have done something wrong...
Location information
- Coordinates 149.174697-35.237033
- Altitude 696.0m
- Places Majura, ACT
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 24 Sep 2023 04:46 PM Recorded on
- abread111 Recorded by
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Plants Wattles abread111 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 1 metre to 5 metres Plant height
- True In flower
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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