Acacia faucium
Acacia faucium is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland, Australia. It is a tree with terete branchlets, straight to shallowly sickle-shaped phyllodes, spikes of flowers, and linear, crust-like pods.
Description
Acacia faucium is a tree that typically grows to a height of and has terete, glabrous branchlets. Its phyllodes are straight to shallowly sickle-shaped, thinly leathery, long and wide with many parallel, longitudinal veins, two or three more prominent than the rest. The flowers are borne in spikes long on glabrous peduncles long. Flowering has been recorded from June to October, and the pods are linear, crust-like, up to long and wide, straight to curved or sometimes openly coiled. The pods are dark brown, glabrous, rounded and wrinkled over the seeds. The seeds are pale brown, long with a cup-shaped aril.
Taxonomy
Acacia faucium was first formally described in 1999 by Leslie Pedley from specimens collected collected by Anthony Bean near Bertya Creek in the White Mountains National Park in 1992. The specific epithet means 'of gorges', referring to the habitat of the species at the type location.
This species of wattle grows in woodland and thickets on sandy creek banks and a flat plain in the headwaters of Torrens Creek in White Mountains National Park where it occurs in sandstone gorges, and in broken country further south, north of Clermont.