Acacia aneura

Mulga (Acacia aneura )

Mulga (Acacia aneura ) is an endemic Australian acacia species, the approximately 1.5 million square kilometers of the country 's interior is dominated along with other types. As a rule, which is dominated by her Savannah is known as Mulga. The Western Australian Mulga Shrublands, a large, arid region that is maintained by the World Wildlife Fund ecoregion than in the domestic Western Australia, is named after this species of acacia ..

Features

Mulga is a shrub or tree and is up to 18 meters high. The branches have white or red- glandular hairs between resinous ribs. Young branches are dark brown, black and dirty brown and resinous.

The leaves are reduced to phyllodes (hence also the species name aneura = " nerveless "); these are straight or curved, rather flat. The length is from 2.5 to 9 ( up to 12.5 ) cm, with a width from 0.8 to 9 millimeters. Between the longitudinal nerves, phyllodes are hairy pressed, sometimes resinous.

The 7 to 30 mm long inflorescences are axillary individually. The stems of the flowers are 3 to 10 millimeters long. The ears are seven to 30 millimeters long. The flowers are fünfzählig. The sepals are spatulate or oblong, 0.5 to 1.1 millimeters long. The crown is 0.9 to 1.8 mm long, glabrous or rarely hairy. The stamens are two to 3.5 millimeters long. The ovary is densely covered with scale-like hairs. The pods are up to 10 centimeters long, 7-17 mm wide, flat and straight. The seeds are hard, dark, three to six millimeters long and 2.2 to 4.5 millimeters wide.

Dissemination

In Australia, the species is widespread with the exception of the State of Victoria. Mainly it comes to the south of the 20th degree of latitude from the Indian Ocean almost to the Great Dividing Range ago, on loamy and sandy soils. In pure stands, it forms open forests, savannas or shrub shrubs. In eucalyptus forests they often forms the undergrowth.

For dominated by Mulga vegetation see Flora of Australia.

Use

Mulga is of great economic importance as a livestock feed.

The Aborigines used the plant in many ways: The seeds can be ground baked into bread, the sweet root resin and insect galls are also eaten. The hard wood is processed into boomerangs, spear throwers and combat shields.

System

There are the type Mulgabusch (Acacia aneura ) more than ten varieties:

  • Acacia aneura var aneura
  • Acacia aneura argentea var Pedley
  • Acacia aneura var ayersiana ( Maconochie ) L.Pedley
  • Acacia aneura var brachystachya ( Benth. ) Maiden
  • Acacia aneura var conifera B.R.Randell
  • Acacia aneura var fuliginea Pedley
  • Acacia aneura var intermedia Pedley
  • Acacia aneura latifolia J.M.Black
  • Acacia aneura macrocarpa var B.R.Randell
  • Acacia aneura var major Pedley
  • Acacia aneura var microcarpa Pedley
  • Acacia aneura var pilbarana Pedley
  • Acacia aneura var stenocarpa Benth.
  • Acacia aneura var tenuis Pedley

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