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Acacia hylonoma

Acacia hylonoma
Photo: Bruce Gray, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Queensland (E. Cook Distr.)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Acacia hylonoma, commonly known as Yarrabah wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to north Queensland, Australia. It is a rainforest tree with narrowly elliptic phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and linear, leathery pods raised over the seeds.

Where it grows

Yarrabah wattle grows in rainforest and is restricted to the area near where the type specimens were collected in northern Queensland, just south east of Cairns, at altitudes up to 400 m (1,300 ft).

Other Acacia plants

Acacia abbatiana · Acacia abbreviata · Acacia abrupta · Acacia acanthaster · Harrow Wattle · Acacia acellerata · Gold-dust acacia · Acacia aciphylla · Acacia acoma · Acacia acradenia · Strap Leaved Wattle · Acacia acuaria

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia hylonoma by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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