''Acacia kochii'' 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''.
Description
The spreading, spiny and intricate shrub typically grows to a height of .
[ It has glabrous branches with long thorns. It has clusters of ]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 found in the nodes. The phyllodes have an asymmetrically narrowly oblong-elliptic to narrowly oblanceolate shape with a length of and a width of .[ The simple ]inflorescence
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...
s occur singly or in groups of two or three. The flower-heads are shortly cylindrical or have an ovoid shape with a length of and a diameter of with golden flowers. The 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 that form after flowering resemble a sting of beads with a length of up to and a width of . The dull black seeds in the pods have an elliptic shape.[
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Distribution
It is native to an area in the Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions 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 ...
between Yalgoo in the north to Moora in the south growing in clay or loamy-sandy soils.
See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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kochii
Acacias of Western Australia
Plants described in 1911