''Acacia dacrydioides'' 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'' that is endemic to north western

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Description

The loose shrub typically grows to a height of and has a spreading arching habit. It has terete villous branchlets that are fawn to red-brown in colour. Like many species of ''Acacia'' it has

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 instead of true leaves. The evergreen linear shaped phyllodes are in length and that are sparsely villous. It blooms from March to June producing yellow flowers arranged along flower-spikes that are in length. Following flowering glabrous seed pods for that resemble a string of beads with dark red to brown ribbed valves form. The pods are in length and around wide with seeds arranged longitudinally inside.

Distribution

It is native to an area in the

Kimberley Kimberly or Kimberley may refer to: Places and historical events Australia * Kimberley (Western Australia) ** Roman Catholic Diocese of Kimberley * Kimberley Warm Springs, Tasmania * Kimberley, Tasmania a small town * County of Kimberley, a ...

region of Western Australia where it is found on ridges amongst rocks in areas of sandstone and quartzite. The bulk of the population is found in the

King Edward River The King Edward River is a river in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The headwaters of the river rise below Poonjurra Hill and flows in a northerly direction almost parallel with the Kalumburu Road and eventually discharges into De ...

district around the Kalumburu Mission where it is usually part of mixed woodland communities on ridges or on river banks in deep sand.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15289633 dacrydioides Acacias of Western Australia Plants described in 1975 Taxa named by Mary Tindale

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