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''Acacia argentina'' 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
Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
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Description

The shrub typically grows to a height of . It has terete and glaucous branchlets that have sparse to moderate indumentum that extend to the axis of the leaves and long hairs. The new branchlet tips are silvery grey in colour but tinged with yellow. The bipinnate shaped leaves are grey-green with a length of . There are two or three pairs of pinnae per leaf, each having a length of and containing six to nine leaflet pairs. The leaflets have an oblong shape with a length of and a width of . It flowers between July and September. The simple axillary inflorescences have up to eight branches each containing a yellow spherical flowerhead with a diameter of around composed of 20 to 24 flowers. Following flowering linear seed pods with a length of about covered with stiff hairs. The species resembles ''
Acacia chinchillensis ''Acacia chinchillensis'', commonly known as the chinchilla wattle, is a species of ''Acacia'' native to eastern Australia. Description The shrub typically grows to a height of and a width of . It has smooth grey to green bark. It terete with i ...
'' but is taller with wider leaflets.


Taxonomy

The species was first formally described by the botanist Leslie Pedley in 2006 as part of the work ''Notes on Acacia Mill. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae), chiefly from Queensland'' as published in the journal '' Austrobaileya''.


Distribution

The species has a limited range and is only found in a small area in the sandstone parts of the upper catchment areas of smaller tributaries of the Dawson River to the north of Taroom in south western Queensland.


See also

*
List of Acacia species Several Cladistics, cladistic analyses have shown that the genus ''Acacia sensu lato, Acacia'' is not monophyletic. While the subg. ''Acacia'' and subg. ''Phyllodinae'' are monophyletic, subg. ''Aculeiferum'' is not. This subgenus consists of thr ...


References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15289392 argentina Fabales of Australia Endemic flora of Queensland Plants described in 2006 Taxa named by Leslie Pedley