''Acacia aprepta'' is a species of ''

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 ...

'' native to eastern

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. The tree can grow to a height of and has a habit of spreading. It is known to have dark grey or black coloured bark that is longitudinally furrowed. The light brown to greyish,

glabrous Glabrousness (from the Latin ''glaber'' meaning "bald", "hairless", "shaved", "smooth") is the technical term for a lack of hair, down, setae, trichomes or other such covering. A glabrous surface may be a natural characteristic of all or part of ...

and resinous branchlets are angular to terete. Like most species of ''Acacia'' it has

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 rather than true leaves. The linear or very narrowly oblanceolate and flat phyllodes can be straight or slightly sub falcate. The scurfy olive-green phyllodes are in length and and have one to three prominent longitudinal veins. It blooms between October and January producing flower-spikes that occur in groups of one to three in the

axil A leaf ( : leaves) is any of the principal appendages of a vascular plant stem, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", while the leaves, st ...

s and are in length. After flowering, light brown

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s form that have a linear or very narrowly oblong shape and are raised over the seeds. The pods are in length and wide. The dark brown seeds within have a broadly oblong shape and are long. It has a limited distribution in an area of south-eastern

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in the western parts of the

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and around Maranoa where it grows in shallow gravelly or loamy sandy soils often over

sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates) ...

as a part of scrubland communities where it can form dense thickets.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q9562226 aprepta Fabales of Australia Flora of Queensland Taxa named by Leslie Pedley Plants described in 1974

See also

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