''Acacia cremiflora'', is a small

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plant occurring in parts of inland

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. It may be seen growing near Orange and

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. It was first collected on 15 May 1972. The attractive yellow or cream flowers may appear at any time of the year.

Description

The shrub usually has a bushy habit and grows to a height of less than but can reach as high as . It is often composed of five to six main branches diverging at the base of the plant. The branches are erect or arched and split into ribbed, brown to green, smooth, hairy branchlets. The dark grey-green to green coloured

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 or convex with an elliptic to broadly elliptic or slightly orbicular shape. the phyllodes usually have a length of and a width of with an undulate margin and acute apex. When it blooms it produces

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 with spherical flower-heads that have a diameter of and contain 18 to 26 pale yellow to cream-coloured flowers. The

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 that form after flowering are a dull brown to dark brown colour and have an oblong to broadly oblong shape and are straight or sometimes curved with a length of and a width of and are thickly coriaceous.

Taxonomy

The species was first formally described by the botanists Barry John Conn and Terrence Michael Tame in 1996 as part of the work ''A revision of the Acacia uncinata group (Fabaceae-Mimosoideae)'' as published in the journal ''Australian Systematic Botany''. It was reclassified as ''Racosperma cremiflorum'' in 2003 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 ...

then transferred back to genus ''Acacia'' in 2006.

Distribution

The shrub is

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to inland parts of New South Wales from around Uarby and Elong Elong in the north down to around Mudgee and

in the south and extending as far west as Parkes. The more northern populations are mostly situated in woodlands and open woodland-grassland communities growing in stony clayey loamy soils whereas populations in the south are part of ''

Eucalyptus ''Eucalyptus'' () is a genus of over seven hundred species of flowering trees, shrubs or mallees in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. Along with several other genera in the tribe Eucalypteae, including '' Corymbia'', they are commonly known as euca ...

'' woodlands growing in gravelly clay or sandy loam soils.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q4670908 cremiflora Fabales of Australia Flora of New South Wales Plants described in 1996 Taxa named by Barry John Conn

Description

Taxonomy

Distribution

See also

References