''Acacia cuneifolia'' 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''
endemic to south western parts of
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
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Description
The erect straggly shrub typically grows to a height of .
[ It has glabrous to puberulous branchlets with stipules that are in length. The evergreen ]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 variably shaped but most often cuneate
Cuneate means "wedge-shaped", and can apply to:
* Cuneate leaf, a leaf shape
* Cuneate nucleus, a part of the brainstem
* Cuneate fasciculus
Cuneate means "wedge-shaped", and can apply to:
* Cuneate leaf, a leaf shape
* Cuneate nucleus, a part ...
to oblong-cuneate. They have a length of and a width of wide with a prominent central midrib.[ The simple inflorescences occur in groups of one to six per axil and have spherical flower-heads with a diameter of containing 23 to 26 golden flowers. The glabrous strongly curved to loosely coiled seed pods that form after flowering have a length of up to and are wide and contain dull dark brown seeds with an oblong to slightly elliptic shape that are in length.][
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Distribution
It is native to an area in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia from York in the north to Williams in the south where it is found on hills, among granite outcrops and along stony watercourses growing in sandy-clay-loamy soils.
See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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cuneifolia
Acacias of Western Australia
Taxa named by Bruce Maslin
Plants described in 1999