''Acacia bancroftiorum,'' commonly known as Bancroft's Wattle, 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 slender tree or spindly shrub typically grows to a height of less than . It has
terete red to brown branchlets that are glabrous and pruinose.
Taxonomy
The species was first formally described by the botanist
Joseph Maiden as ''Acacia bancroftii'' in 1918 as part of the work ''Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland''. It was reclassified as ''Racosperma bancroftii'' in 1987 by
Leslie Pedley then transferred back to the genus ''Acacia'' in 2006.
The
specific epithet
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honours
Joseph Bancroft and his son, Thomas Lane Bancroft.
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Distribution
The bulk of the population is situated from around Collinsville in the north down to around Crows Nest in south and out to the west as far as around Tambo. It is found on stony hillsides as a part of open '' Eucalyptus'' woodland communities where it grows in shallow sandy soils or sometimes in deep alluvium.[
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See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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bancroftiorum
Flora of Queensland
Plants described in 1918
Taxa named by Joseph Maiden