''Acacia jennerae'' (common name Coonavittra wattle)
is a shrub or 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 ''Phyllodineae'' that is
endemic to arid parts of central
Australia
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.
Description
The tree typically grows to a height of
[ an has an erect to spreading habit. It has smooth or finely fissured bark with a tan to reddish brown coloured and glabrous branchlets that are angled or flattened towards the apices. 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 and glabrous narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate shaped phyllodes are straight to slightly curved with a length of and a width of and have a prominent midvein.[
]
Taxonomy
The species was first formally described by the botanist Joseph Maiden as part of A.J.Ewart and O.B. Davies 1917 work ''Acacias of the Northern Territory'' as published in ''The Flora of the Northern Territory''. It was reclassified as ''Racosperma jennerae'' by Leslie Pedley in 2003 then transferred back to genus ''Acacia'' in 2006.specific epithet
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
honours Amelia Maud Jenner who was once the librarian at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.
Distribution
It is native to the Northern Territory and now found in an area in the Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia.
See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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jennerae
Acacias of Western Australia
Flora of the Northern Territory
Flora of Queensland
Flora of South Australia
Flora of New South Wales
Taxa named by Joseph Maiden