''Acacia divergens'' 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 native to Western Australia. The diffuse, slender and spiny shrub typically grows to a height of . It generally has a main trunk and often has long undivided terminal branches that downwards. The branchlets are usually glabrous or slightly haired and finely yellow-ribbed with slender stipules. The evergreen pungent

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 have a shallowly obdeltate to obtriangular shape that are in length and wide. It blooms from August to November and produces cream-yellow flowers. It has one simple inflorescences per

axil A leaf ( : leaves) is any of the principal appendages of a vascular plant stem, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", while the leaves, st ...

. The flower heads have a globular shape containing 5 to 10 cream to yellow flowers. After flowering linear, curved to twisted seed pods form that are up to in length and wide containing oblong glossy brown seeds that are in length. ''A. divergens'' is part of the '' A. biflora'' group and also resembles '' A. robiniae''. It is found in an area in the southern Wheatbelt,

Peel Peel or Peeling may refer to: Places Australia * Peel (Western Australia) * Peel Island, Queensland *Peel, New South Wales * Peel River (New South Wales) Canada * Peel Parish, New Brunswick * Peel, New Brunswick, an unincorporated communi ...

, South West and Great Southern regions of Western Australia that is most often found along watercourses, around swamps and other damp areas although it also is found in drier areas such as loamy laterite in Jarrah forest as well as in coastal heath communities.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q15289874 divergens Acacias of Western Australia Plants described in 1842 Taxa named by George Bentham

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