''Acacia ephedroides'' is a tree 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 a reasonably large area in south western
Australia
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.
Description
The weeping tree typically grows to a height of with minni ritchi peeling bark.
[ It has densely haired branchlets. Like most 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 rather than true leaves. The evergreen phyllodes have a filiform shape and are substraight to shallowly incurved and terete to compressed. The phyllodes have a length of and a diameter of are densely haired and not rigid and have eight prominent nerves that are each separated by deep furrows.[ ] It blooms from August to October producing yellow flowers.[
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Distribution
It is native to an area in the 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 ...
and Wheatbelt regions of Western Australia where it is commonly situated amongst granite outcrops growing in sand, clay or clay-loam soils.[
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See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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ephedroides
Acacias of Western Australia
Taxa named by George Bentham
Plants described in 1842