''Acacia kybeanensis'', commonly known as kybean wattle or kybeyan wattle, is a shrub of 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 eastern

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Description

The shrub typically grows to a height of and has a dense or erect to spreading habit and finely greyish haired branchlets. The grey-green to glaucous phyllodes are sometimes deflexed and slightly asymmetric with an oblong-elliptic to narrowly elliptic or lanceolate shape. The phyllodes have a length of and a width of and have one nerve per face with obscure lateral nerves. It blooms between August and October and produces inflorescences in groups of four to ten with spherical flower-heads with a diameter of globular containing 8 to 15 subdensely packed bright golden flowers on widely ovate to subcircular, dark brown to black bracteoles. The blackish coloured seed pods that form after flowering have an oblong to narrowly oblong shape and are raised over seeds. The glabrous pods have a length of up to and a width of and are firmly chartaceous. The seeds within the pod have an elliptic to widely elliptic shape with a length of and a width of .

Taxonomy

The species was first formally described by the botanists Joseph Maiden and

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in 1927 as part of the work ''Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales''. It was reclassified as ''Racosperma kybeanense'' by Leslie Pedley in 2003 then transferred back to genus ''Acacia'' in 2006.

Distribution

It is native to parts of New South Wales from around the Blue Mountains in the Kybean Range near Lake Eucumbene in the north and extending discontinuously to around Freestone Creek near Suggan Buggan in north eastern Gippsland area of Victoria to the south. It is often found on rocky slopes in rocky sandy soils as a part of '' Eucalyptus'' woodland communities.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q9565945 kybeanensis Flora of New South Wales Flora of Victoria (Australia) Plants described in 1927 Taxa named by Joseph Maiden Taxa named by William Blakely

Description

Taxonomy

Distribution

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