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Acacia loderi
Also called Myall, Nealie, Nelia
Acacia loderi, commonly known as nealie, nelia, Broken Hill gidgee or myall, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-east of mainland Australia. It is a tall shrub or small tree with sometimes pendulous branchlets, linear, more or less terete to flat phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and papery pods, appearing somewhat like a string of beads.
Nealie is found in inland mainland southeastern Australia, mainly in far western New South Wales, from west of Hillston and north to White Cliffs, extending into Oakbank Station and Netley Gap in South Australia and near Merbein and Nathalia in Victoria. It grows in colonized brown or red soils in mostly flat country, and forms a dominant component of Acacia loderi shrubland, where it is found with such trees as black oak (Casuarina pauper), inland rosewood (Alectryon oleifolius) and leopardwood (Flindersia maculosa), and an understory of chenopods and grasses. Acacia loderi shrubland has been classified as an 'Endangered Ecological Community' by the New South Wales Government. Key threats include clearing and excessive grazing by livestock.
The Wiradjuri people of New South Wales use the seeds of the species to make flour for bread, the fibrous bark for making string and rope, and the resin is eaten and can be used to make glue.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia loderi 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.
