Acacia buxifolia subsp. buxifolia

Box-leaf Wattle at Conder, ACT

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Acacia buxifolia subsp. buxifolia	28 Sep 2014	MichaelBedingfield
Acacia buxifolia subsp. buxifolia	27 Sep 2014	MichaelBedingfield
Unidentified	27 Sep 2014	MichaelBedingfield

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3 comments

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

28 Sep 2014

The leaves seem to big to be Acacia buxifolia, could it be the top of Acacia rubida? Hopefully there is some-one out there who can be definitive

BettyDonWood wrote:

28 Sep 2014

We really need a scale. Assuming the flowers are 5mm in diameter, it would fit into Acacia buxifolia, whose phyllodes are 1-3cm long and 2-8mm wide, with 7-15-flowered heads. It might also be Acacia boormanii, whose phyllodes are 1-3mm wide. However it has 5-10 flowered heads, which I think would be obvious. I don't think it is Acacia rubida, because the branchlets are green, not reddish. On balance, probably Acacia buxifolia.

MichaelBedingfield wrote:

28 Sep 2014

Thanks for your opinion. It was definitely not Acacia rubida nor A. boormanii, which I know quite well. So I'll stick with A. buxifolia.

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