''Acacia gibsonii'', commonly known as Gibson's wattle,
[ 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''.
Description
The low, spreading shrub usually grows to a height of and a width of approximately and has a somewhat straggly habit. The terete branchlets are a reddish brown colour that age to a light grey colour. 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 an oblong to oblong-elliptic that can be somewhat sigmoid, they have a length of and a width of . The phyllodes are glabrous with minute, red to brown coloured trichomes with three prominent longitudinal nerves. It blooms from September to October producing short cylindrical flower-spikes that are in length and quite densely flowered. Following flowering in around December tightly coiled 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 form that are around and wide and are brown in colour with a thinly coriaceous texture.[
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Distribution
It is native to a small area in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
Norseman
The Norsemen (or Norse people) were a North Germanic ethnolinguistic group of the Early Middle Ages, during which they spoke the Old Norse language. The language belongs to the North Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages and is the pre ...
– Hyden Road where it is reasonably common within the restricted locale.Allocasuarina campestris
''Allocasuarina campestris'', commonly known as the Shrubby she-oak, is a shrub of the she-oak family Casuarinaceae native to Western Australia.
The dioecious or monoecious shrub typically grows to a height of and produces red-brown flowers fro ...
'', '' Allocasuarina globosa'' and ''Calothamnus quadrifidus
''Calothamnus quadrifidus'', commonly known as one-sided bottlebrush, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. The common name alludes to the arrangement of the flowers in the infloresce ...
''.[
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See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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gibsonii
Acacias of Western Australia
Taxa named by Bruce Maslin
Plants described in 2013