''Acacia cedroides'' 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
endemic to
Western Australia.
Description
The dense and prickly shrub typically grows to a height of .
[ It has finely ribbed and striated hairy branchlets with linear-triangular stipules that are in length. The rigid, green, inclined to ascending ]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 are often shallowly incurved with a length of and a width of .[ The simple inflorescences has spherical flower-heads that contain 15 to 25 cream to pale yellow coloured flowers. The curved red to brown coloured seed pods that form after flowering have a length of and a width of . The oblong grey-brown seeds within the pods have a length of .][
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Distribution
It is native to an area along the south coast in the Great Southern and the Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia between Jerramungup and Ravensthorpe where it is found on rocky hillsides growing in shallow stony soils[
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See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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cedroides
Acacias of Western Australia
Taxa named by George Bentham
Plants described in 1855