''Acacia cochlocarpa'' 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 ''Juliflorae''. It is native to Western Australia. The sprawling shrub typically grows to a height of but reach a height of and produces yellow flowers. The branchlets are slightly flexuose with persistent stipules. It has erect, narrowly oblong-elliptic shaped and incurved

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. The phyllodes are in length with a width of . There are two simple inflorescences per axil. The flower heads are subglobular to short-cylindrical with a length of and a diameter of . After flowering tightly spirally or irregularly coiled seed pods form containing glossy mottled round to oblong seeds that are . It has a scattered distribution in the Wheatbelt of Western Australia where it grows in sandy, clay gravelly soils often around

laterite Laterite is both a soil and a rock type rich in iron and aluminium and is commonly considered to have formed in hot and wet tropical areas. Nearly all laterites are of rusty-red coloration, because of high iron oxide content. They develop by ...

. Found in areas around

Watheroo Watheroo is a small town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. There are 137 residents, according to the . History Land in the area was settled by James Oliver in 1851, the area was surveyed in 1871 and the name Watheroo was charted fo ...

and Manmanning as a part of sandy heathland communities. There are two known

subspecies In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...

: *''Acacia cochlocarpa'' Meisn. subsp. ''cochlocarpa'' *''Acacia cochlocarpa'' subsp. ''velutinosa'' Maslin & A.R.Chapman ''A cochlocarpa'' is similar in appearance and closely related to '' Acacia lirellata'' and is also closely related to ''

Acacia tetraneura ''Acacia tetraneura'' is a shrub belonging to the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Juliflorae'' that is endemic to western Australia. Description The slow spreading shrub typically grows to a height of and has a flat-topped habit. It has gla ...

''.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q15289525 cochlocarpa Acacias of Western Australia Plants described in 1855 Taxa named by Carl Meissner

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