''Acacia imbricata'', commonly known as imbricate wattle, is a shrub species that is
endemic to
South Australia.
Description
It grows to between high and had phyllodes up to long and wide. The yellow globular flowerheads arise from the leaf axils in groups of two or singly.
The shrub has a dense and spreading habit with
glabrous branches that appear somewhat willowy. The strongly acutely angled branchlets are ribbed below the phyllodes. 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 straight and dark green phyllodes are erect and crowded and have a narrowly oblong or linear to oblanceolate shape with an obscure midrib and no lateral nerves.
Taxonomy
The species was first formally described in 1858 by Victorian Government Botanist
Ferdinand von Mueller
Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (german: Müller; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Vict ...
in ''
Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae''. His description was based on plant material collected from
Tumby Bay
Tumby Bay is a coastal town situated on the Spencer Gulf, on the eastern coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, north of Port Lincoln. The town of Tumby Bay is the major population centre of the District Council of Tumby Bay, and the cen ...
.
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Distribution
The species has a limited distribution and is located in the south east of the Eyre Peninsula from around the Yeelanna–Ungarra road in the north down to around Koppio and Warunda in the south where it is usually a part of open woodland or forest or scrubland communities growing in sandy soils.[
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See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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imbricata
This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the scientific names of organisms. The binomial nomenclature used for animals and plants i ...
Flora of South Australia
Fabales of Australia
Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller