''Acacia aureocrinita'' 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 parts of eastern
Australia
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.
Description
The shrub or tree has a bushy habit and typically grows to a height of less than but can reach as high as . The shrub often has over four primary erect branches that diverge at the base. The
terete brown-green to brown branchlets are ribbed and hairy.
It has elliptic or occasionally ovate-elliptic shaped
phyllode
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s with a length of and a width of . It blooms during the warmer months between December and March and produces
inflorescence
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s with creamy yellow flowers. The flowers occur with one inflorescence per axil, the spherical flowerheads contain 18 to 30 pale yellow to cream coloured flowers and have a diameter of . The leathery brown
seed pod
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s that form after flowering are slightly curved with a length of and a width of .
Taxonomy
The species was first formally described by the
botanist
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s
Barry John Conn and Terry Tame in 1996 in the article ''A revision of the Acacia uncinata group (Fabaceae-Mimosoideae)'' as published in the journal ''
Australian Systematic Botany''. The only synonym is ''Racosperma aureocrinitum''.
It is quite similar to ''
Acacia uncinata'' in appearance.
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Distribution
It is found in south western New South Wales
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between the Shoalhaven River
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Location and features
The Shoalhaven ...
and Cooma. It is found on ridges and steep valley slopes often as a part of ''Eucalypts'' forest communities and grows in stony clay soils.[
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See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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aureocrinita
Flora of New South Wales
Plants described in 1996
Taxa named by Barry John Conn