''Acacia brachyclada'' 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''.
Description
The dense and rounded to spreading resinous shrub typically grows to a height of .
[ The green ]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 have an obliquely ovate or oblong-elliptic shape and are length and wide.[ The simple inflorescences occur as single globular heads mostly containing 12 to 16 golden flowers. Glabrous seed podss form later that are tightly and irregularly coiled to a width of . The seeds within have an oblong shape and are long.][
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Taxonomy
The species was first formally described by the botanist William Vincent Fitzgerald in 1912 as part of the work ''New West Australian Plants. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign''. It was reclassified as ''Racosperma brachycladum'' by Leslie Pedley in 2003 before being returned to the genus ''Acacia'' in 2006.
Distribution
It is native to an area in the Wheatbelt, Great Southern and the Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia. It is mostly found on gentle undulating plains and low lying areas where grows in clay, loam, sandy or calcareous soils.[
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See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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brachyclada
Acacias of Western Australia
Plants described in 1912
Taxa named by William Vincent Fitzgerald