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|familia=Fabaceae
|familia=Fabaceae
|genus=Acacia
|genus=Acacia
|species=implexa
|species=implexa
|common_name=Hickory, Lightwood
|common_name=Lightwood, Hickory Wattle, Screw-pod Wattle, Bastard Myall, Fish Wattle, Broad-leaf Wattle
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|habit=tree
|habit=tree
|usda_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|usda_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|max_zone=11
|max_zone=11
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|image=A.Implexa.jpg
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'''Acacia implexa''' is an [[Australian]] [[Acacia]], used for furniture making. Its common name is Lightwood.
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Acacia implexa, Benth. A tall tree, 50 ft. high, with light green foliage and rough bark: phyll. falcate- lanceolate, acuminate, with a more or less hooked point, 4-7 in. long, 3/8-3/4in. wide, veins 3-5, with finer parallel veins between; no gland: fls. cream-yellow, in racemes much shorter than phyll., 40-50 in a head; peduncles 3/8in. long: pod curved, often like an interrogation point, light brown with nerve-like margin, more or less constricted and contracted between the seeds, 4-6 in. long, 1/4in. wide; seeds longitudinal; funicle club-shaped, folded once or twice at end of seed—Distinguished from A. melanoxylon by the more pointed and hooked phyll., while the funicle is cream-colored and folded at the end of the seed instead of being scarlet and twice encircling it as in A. melanoxylon.
Acacia implexa, Benth. Fig. 72. A tall tree, 50 ft. high, with light green foliage and rough bark: phyll. falcate- lanceolate, acuminate, with a more or less hooked point, 4-7 in. long, 3/8-3/4in. wide, veins 3-5, with finer parallel veins between; no gland: fls. cream-yellow, in racemes much shorter than phyll., 40-50 in a head; peduncles 3/8in. long: pod curved, often like an interrogation point, light brown with nerve-like margin, more or less constricted and contracted between the seeds, 4-6 in. long, 1/4in. wide; seeds longitudinal; funicle club-shaped, folded once or twice at end of seed. F. v. M. Icon. 8:2.—Distinguished from A. melanoxylon by the more pointed and hooked phyll., while the funicle is cream-colored and folded at the end of the seed instead of being scarlet and twice encircling it as in A. melanoxylon.
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