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Acacia Acutata
''Acacia acutata'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the Southwest Australia, south-west of Western Australia. It is an inticately branched, often compact shrub with spiny branchlets, sharply pointed, triangular to trowel-shaped Phyllode, phyllodes, flowers arranged in spherical heads of 11 to 15 flowers, and firmly papery Pod (fruit), pods, rounded over the seeds. Description ''Acacia acutata'' is an intricately branched, wikt:glabrous, glabrous, often compact shrub that typically grows to a height of and has rigid, spiny branchlets. The phyllodes are triangular to trowel-shaped, long and wide and sharply pointed, with a prominent midvein. There are stipules at the base of the phyllodes, but that fall off as the phyllodes mature. The flowers are borne in spherical heads on a Peduncle (botany), peduncle long, each head with 11 to 15 golden flowers with thin Bract#Bracteole, bracteoles at the base, but fall off as the flowers develop. Flowe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Pedley
Leslie Pedley (19 May 1930 – 27 November 2018)IPNILeslie Pedley/ref> was an Australian botanist who specialised in the genus ''Acacia''. He is notable for bringing into use the generic name ''Racosperma'', creating a split in the genus, which required some 900 Australian species to be renamed, because the type species of ''Acacia'', ''Acacia nilotica'', now ''Vachellia nilotica'', had a different lineage from the Australian wattles. However, the International Botanical Congress (IBC), held in Melbourne in 2011, ratified its earlier decision to retain the name ''Acacia'' for the Australian species, but to rename the African species. See also: ''Acacia'' and ''Vachellia nilotica'' regarding the dispute, anAPNIfor a brief history of the name, ''Racosperma''. In 2018, Japanese botanists Hiroyoshi Ohashi and Kazuaki K. Ohashi published '' Pedleya'' (in the Fabaceae family) from New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |