''Acacia attenuata'' 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''. It is native to an area in south eastern

Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_ ...

. It was listed as a

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in 2009 according to the ''

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''.

Description

The shrub has a slender habit and typically grows to a height of with glabrous branchlets. It has persistent juvenile

bipinnate The following is a list of terms which are used to describe leaf morphology in the description and taxonomy of plants. Leaves may be simple (a single leaf blade or lamina) or compound (with several leaflets). The edge of the leaf may be regular o ...

leaves. It has green oblanceolate or narrowly oblong-elliptic shaped

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 with a length of and a width of . When it blooms it produces simple

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...

s of spherical flower-heads containing 20 to 35 cream to pale yellow coloured flowers. Following flowering

seed pod This page provides a glossary of plant morphology. Botanists and other biologists who study plant morphology use a number of different terms to classify and identify plant organs and parts that can be observed using no more than a handheld magnify ...

s form usually around June–July with the pods reaching maturity in the springtime between October and November. The dark brown, flat and glabrous seedpods are narrowed between the seeds with a length of and a width of .

Distribution

It is found in south eastern Queensland in high rainfall areas usually on coastal lowland sand plains less than from the coast over a geographic range of around , from

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to the north of

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in the north down to around Burleigh Heads on the

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in the south. It is scattered over eight Local Government Areas with an estimated total area of of which less than is inhabited by the plant. It has an estimated total population of between 1,000 and 2,500 plants inhabiting approximately 26 individual locations. The highly fragmented distribution is a result of habitat destruction and clearing, mostly from urban development pressures.

References

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attenuata ''Attenuata'' is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Lironobidae. Species There are 21 species within the genus ''Attenuata'', including: * † '' Attenuata admiranda'' Richardson, 1997 * '' A ...

Endemic flora of Queensland Plants described in 1927 Taxa named by Joseph Maiden Taxa named by William Blakely

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