''Acacia amblyophylla'' is a shrub belonging to the genus ''
Acacia
''Acacia'', commonly known as the wattles or acacias, is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa and Australasia. The genus na ...
'' and the subgenus ''Phyllodineae'' that is native to an area along the west coast of Western Australia.
Description
The bushy and open shrub typically grows to a height of .
[ The glabrous branchlets support patent to inclined ]phyllode
Phyllodes are modified petioles or leaf stems, which are leaf-like in appearance and function. In some plants, these become flattened and widened, while the leaf itself becomes reduced or vanishes altogether. Thus the phyllode comes to serve the ...
s that have an oblanceolate shape and are slightly recurved. The thin green phyllodes are in length and wide.[ The simple racemose inflorescences have a length of containing globular flower-heads, each made up of around 25 pale golden flowers. The dark-brown glabrous seed pods that form later are rounded-over seeds and are up to long and wide, dark brown, glabrous. The shiny black seeds within have a length of and are wide.][
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Taxonomy
The species was first formally described by the botanist Ferdinand von Mueller
Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (german: Müller; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Vict ...
in 1882 as part of the work ''Definitions of some new Australian plants'' as published in the ''Southern Science Record''. It was reclassified in 2003 by Leslie Pedley as ''Racosperma amblyophyllum'' then transferred back into the genus ''Acacia'' in 2006.[
The type specimen was collected from Shark Bay by von Mueller in 1877.][
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Distribution
It is native to an area near Shark Bay
Shark Bay (Malgana: ''Gathaagudu'', "two waters") is a World Heritage Site in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. The http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/places/world/shark-bay area is located approximately north of Perth, on the ...
in the Gascoyne
The Gascoyne region is one of the nine administrative regions of Western Australia. It is located in the northwest of Western Australia, and consists of the local government areas of Carnarvon, Exmouth, Shark Bay and Upper Gascoyne. The Ga ...
region of Western Australia where it is found on limestone rises and coastal dunes growing in calcareous sandy soils.
See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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amblyophylla
Acacias of Western Australia
Plants described in 1882
Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller