''Acacia amentifera'' is a tree 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 ''Juliflorae.'' It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to parts of northern

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. The shrub has angled branchlets with resinous ribs. The

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 appear in groups of three to five per node and have an obliquely oblong-elliptic to oblong-oblanceolate shape with a length of and a width of . The species is known in the upper catchment of the Victoria River in the

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory ...

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''Acacia amentifera'': occurrence data from the Australasian Virtual Herbarium
{{Taxonbar, from=Q9562042 amentifera Flora of the Northern Territory Plants described in 1859 Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller

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