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|accepted_name=Acacia saligna
|accepted_authority=(Labillardière) H. L. Wendland
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Comm. Acac. Aphyll.,
|place=26. 1820
|year=1820
}}
|common_names=Golden wreath wattle
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Mimosa saligna
|authority=Labillardière
|rank=species
|publication_title=Nov. Holl. Pl.
|publication_place=2: 86, plate 235.  1807
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Fabaceae;Fabaceae subfam. Caesalpinioideaemimosoidclade;Acacia;Acacia saligna
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Fabaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Fabaceae subfam. Caesalpinioideaemimosoidclade]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Acacia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Acacia saligna]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 11
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or small trees, pendulous, to 6 m. <b>Twigs</b> bluish to purplish, slightly flexuous, slightly ridged, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> phyllodic; phyllode flat, straight to slightly curved, linear to narrowly elliptic, 70–250 × 6–25 mm, venation pinnate, midvein prominent, minor veins faint, apex narrowly acuminate, apiculate, surfaces glabrous; gland 1, 0–3 mm distal to pulvinus (obvious, disciform); pulvinus 1–3.5 mm. <b>Peduncles</b> 5–15 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> globose heads, densely flowered, 8–12 mm diam., in pseudoracemes of 2–10 heads, 5–40 mm, solitary in distal leaf axils. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous, golden yellow; calyx 1–2 mm; corolla 2.6–3.4 mm; filaments 5–6 mm; ovary glabrous. <b>Legumes</b> flattened, linear, 80–140 × 5–8 mm, constricted between seeds. <b>Seeds</b>: aril yellow, clavate, obovate, 2–3 mm, forming cap on seed.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering fall–spring.
|habitat=Disturbed areas.
|elevation=0–600 m.
|distribution=Calif.;Fla.;Nev.;sw Australia.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Acacia saligna is known from Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, and Ventura counties in California, Lee and Monroe counties in Florida, and Clark County in Nevada.</p>
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Acacia saligna
|authority=(Labillardière) H. L. Wendland
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Mimosa saligna
|family=Fabaceae
|phenology=Flowering fall–spring.
|habitat=Disturbed areas.
|elevation=0–600 m.
|distribution=Calif.;Fla.;Nev.;sw Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Comm. Acac. Aphyll.,
|publication year=1820
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/master/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V11/V11_216.xml
|subfamily=Fabaceae subfam. Caesalpinioideaemimosoidclade
|genus=Acacia
|species=Acacia saligna
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