''Acacia concolorans'' 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 intricate and pungent shrub typically grows to a height of .
[ It has green and scabridulous branchlets with yellow ribs and long straight stipules. The pungent, green and oblong to narrowly oblong shaped ]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 flat and thick with a length of and a width of .[ It blooms from July to August and produces yellow flowers.][ The rudimentary inflorescences occur in groups of two per raceme, the small spherical flower-heads contain seven to eight golden flowers. The narrowly oblong seed pods that form after flowering are curved and have a length of around and a width of . the pods contain irregularly ovate-elliptic shiny dark brown seeds.][
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Taxonomy
The species was first formally described by the botanist Bruce Maslin in 1999 as part of the work ''Acacia miscellany 16. The taxonomy of fifty-five species of Acacia, primarily Western Australian, in section Phyllodineae (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae)'' as published in the journal '' Nuytsia''. It was reclassified as ''Racosperma concolorans'' by Leslie Pedley in 2003 and transferred back to the genus ''Acacia'' in 2006.Acacia inamabilis
''Acacia inamabilis'' is a shrub belonging to the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Phyllodineae'' that is native to Western Australia.
Description
The spreading pungent shrub typically grows to a height of . It has stout, green, mostly glabr ...
'' which has larger phyllodes and larger flower-heads containing many more flowers.[
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Distribution
It is native to an area of the Wheatbelt and the Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia between Kondinin and Yilgarn
The Yilgarn Craton is a large craton that constitutes the bulk of the Western Australian land mass. It is bounded by a mixture of sedimentary basins and Proterozoic fold and thrust belts. Zircon grains in the Jack Hills, Narryer Terrane have bee ...
where it is found on lateritic flats and hills growing in red to brown loam-clay soils
See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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concolorans
Acacias of Western Australia
Plants described in 1999
Taxa named by Bruce Maslin