''Acacia chrysella'' 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'' and is native to Western Australia.
Description
The dense, bushy and rounded shrub typically grows to a height of .
[ It has many glabrous branches. The erect ]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 a linear to occasionally narrowly oblanceolate shape that can be shallowly incurved. Each phyllode is in length with a width of .[ The simple golden ]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 contain three to ten heads per raceme
A raceme ( or ) or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing flowers having short floral stalks along the shoots that bear the flowers. The oldest flowers grow close to the base and new flowers are produced as the s ...
with globular heads with a diameter of containing 15 to 25 light golden flowers. After flowering linear glabrous 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 that are up to around to long and wide. The dull black seeds within have an oblong or elliptic shape and are long.[
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Taxonomy
The species was first formally described by the botanists Joseph Maiden
Joseph Henry Maiden (25 April 1859 – 16 November 1925) was a botanist who made a major contribution to knowledge of the Australian flora, especially the genus ''Eucalyptus''. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation when citing ...
and William Blakely
William Faris Blakely (November 1875 – 1 September 1941) was an Australian botanist and collector. From 1913 to 1940 he worked in the National Herbarium of New South Wales, working with Joseph Maiden on ''Eucalyptus'', Maiden named a ''red g ...
in 1928 as part of the work ''Descriptions of fifty new species and six varieties of western and northern Australian Acacias, and notes on four other species'' as published in the ''Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia''. The species was reclassified by Leslie Pedley
Leslie Pedley (19 May 1930 – 27 November 2018)IPNILeslie Pedley/ref> was an Australian botanist who specialised in the genus ''Acacia''. He is notable for bringing into use the generic name ''Racosperma'', creating a split in the genus, which r ...
in 2003 as ''Racosperma chrysellum'' then moved back to genus ''Acacia'' in 2006.Frederick Stoward
Frederick Stoward (1866–14 December 1931) was the Government Botanist with the Department of Agriculture in Western Australia from 1911 to 1917.
Born at Axbridge, Somerset, England, he was a member of the Hardy family famous for the Hardy Wi ...
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''A chrysella'' belongs to the '']Acacia microbotrya
''Acacia microbotrya'', commonly known as manna wattle or gum wattle, is a shrub or tree belonging to the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Phyllodineae'' that is native to Western Australia.
The Noongar peoples know the tree as Badjong, Galya ...
group'' and is most closely related to '' Acacia aestivalis'', ''Acacia brumalis
''Acacia brumalis'' is a shrub or tree belonging to the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Phyllodineae''. It is native to an area in the Wheatbelt, Great Southern and the Mid West regions of Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly ...
'', '' Acacia chamaeleon'' and ''Acacia harveyi
''Acacia harveyi'' is a shrub belonging to the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Phyllodineae''. It is native to an area along the south coast in the Goldfields-Esperance and Great Southern regions of Western Australia
Western Australia ( ...
''.[
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Distribution
It is native to an area in the Great Southern, Wheatbelt and the Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
where it grows in sandy, loam or clay soils.
See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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chrysella
Acacias of Western Australia
Plants described in 1928
Taxa named by Joseph Maiden
Taxa named by William Blakely