''Acacia aciphylla'' is a species of flowering plant in the family
and is
endemic
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to the
south-west
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of Western Australia. It is a bushy, prickly shrub with down-turned, rigid, sharply-pointed
phyllodes, flowers arranged in a oval heads usually arranged in pairs in leaf axils, and linear
pods up to long.
Description
The shrub is prickly with a dense and bushy habit typically growing to a height of .
[ It has glabrous branchlets and phyllodes. The sessile phyllodes are decurrent on branchlets. They are rigid, erect, straight and terete to slightly rhombic in cross-section. Each phyllode is in length with a diameter of about .][ It flowers from July to September producing densely packed golden-yellow flowers. The ]inflorescence
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s are simple with two found 2 per axil. The heads of each inflorescence has an obloid shape and are about in length with a diameter of around . Following flowering, seed pods are produced that have a linear shape that is slightly raised between seeds. the pods are straight with a length of about and a width of .
Taxonomy
The species was first formally described by the botanist
Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...
George Bentham in 1855 in the journal ''Linnaea: Ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde''.
Distribution and habitat
The plant will grown in sandy, loamy and lateritic soils and on granite outcrops and rocky ridges[ in mixed shrub-land communities. It has a broken distribution between Kalbarri, Mullewa and Morawa.][
]
See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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aciphylla
''Aciphylla'' is a genus of about 40 species of plants in the family Apiaceae, endemic to New Zealand and Australia
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Plants described in 1855
Acacias of Western Australia
Taxa named by George Bentham