Acacia fasciculifera
Acacia fasciculifera, commonly known as scrub ironbark, rosewood, rose wattle, or scaly bark, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland, Australia. It is a tree with pendulous, glabrous branchlets, narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic phyllodes, spherical heads of creamy-coloured flowers and linear, thinly leathery pods.
Description
Acacia fasciculifera is a tree that usually grows to a height of up to about and forms a dense canopy. Its branchlets are pendulous and normally glabrous. The phyllodes are narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic, long and wide, slightly leathery with a prominent midrib and marginal veins. The flowers are borne in two to eight spherical heads in racemes long, often appearing as clusters in axils, on a peduncle long. Each head has 20 to 40 cream-coloured flowers. Flowering usually occurs in summer, and the pods are thinly leathery, up to long and usually wide with a prominent marginal vein. The seeds are oblong to round and flat, usually long, slightly shiny dark brown, with a small aril.
Taxonomy
Acacia fasciculifera was first formally described in 1864 by the botanist George Bentham from an unpublished description by Ferdinand von Mueller. Bentham's description was published in his Flora Australiensis from specimens collected by John Dallachy.
Distribution and habitat
Scrub ironbark is mainly found from near Boonah in the south up to near Rockhampton with a few scattered populations further north to near Bowen. It is found on ridges and along creeks in Eucalyptus forest, or with Brigalow.
Conservation status
Acacia fasciculifera is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.
Uses
This species of wattle is sometimes logged for timber.