Gold Coast
flora and fauna

A guide to the plants and animals that make our city one of the most biodiverse in Australia.
Phylum
MAGNOLIOPHYTA
Class
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
Family
MIMOSACEAE
Genus
Leucaena
Species
leucocephala
Fauna
False
Mapping

Common name
Leucaena
Alternate name
Historical
False
QLD
Naturalised
NSW
EPBC
APC
ROTAP
Comment
LGA significant
False
Stronghold population
False
Wildnet record
False
Museum listing
False
Introduced
True
Qld Census
False
Regionally significant/rationale
False
Restricted distribution/rationale
False
Abundance
Historical abundance
Endemicity
Overall distribution
Local distribution
Currumbin Ck
Known location
Currumbin Ck, Urban coastal areas
Other locality
Riparian dependent
False
Wetland dependent
False
Forest dependent
False
Hollow dependent
False
Terrestrial
False
Estuarine
False
Marine
False
General ecology
Specific ecology
Habitat
Habitat comment
Threats
Management
Community type
Migratory
False
Migration notes
Feeding status
Feeding strategy
Feeding substrate
Diet
Reproduction
Spread by animals, gravity and water.
Breeding season
Active period
Active season
Social group
Behaviour
Range
A particularly bad weed along watercourses.
Biology
Growth form
Shrub
Description
Shrub or small tree to 6m. Leaves compound (bipinnate). Flowers greenish to creamy-white in round flower heads about 2cm across in summer. Fruit a flat pod to 18cm long with 10–25 seeds. Seeds numerous and long-lived.
Taxonomy Comments
Species comments
Citations