''Acacia inaequiloba'' 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 endemic to south western

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Description

The compact multi-stemmed and pungent shrub typically grows to a height of . It has straight and erect branchlets that are rigid, spinose, usually glabrous and often with a powdery white coating. 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 variable evergreen

s have an asymmetrically obtriangular or very narrowly oblong-elliptic shape. The pungent, dull grey green to blue phyllodes with a length of and a width of with a midrib near the abaxial margin and obscure lateral nerves. It produces yellow flowers from July to September.

Distribution

It is native to an area in the Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia where is often situated on sandplains growing in sandy

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soils. It is distributed from around Southern Cross and Coolgardie area in the west to around

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and the Streich Mound which is located about to the north east of

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15287347 inaequiloba Acacias of Western Australia Taxa named by William Vincent Fitzgerald

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