''Acacia lentiginea'' 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 ''Juliflorae'' that is
endemic to north western
Australia
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.
Description
The erect viscid shrub typically grows to a height of .
[ It has obscurely ribbed, terete branchlets. The thin, evergreen ]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 have a narrowly elliptic shape that can be shallowly recurved. The phyllodes have a length of and that dry to a light brown.[
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Taxonomy
The species was first formally described by the botanists Joseph Maiden and William Blakely in 1927 as part of the work ''Descriptions of fifty new species and six varieties of western and northern Australian Acacias, and notes on four other species'' as published in the ''Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia''. It was reclassified as ''Racosperma lentigineum'' by Leslie Pedley in 2003 and was transferred back to genus ''Acacia'' in 2006.[
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Distribution
It is native to a small area in the Kimberley
Kimberly or Kimberley may refer to:
Places and historical events
Australia
* Kimberley (Western Australia)
** Roman Catholic Diocese of Kimberley
* Kimberley Warm Springs, Tasmania
* Kimberley, Tasmania a small town
* County of Kimberley, a ...
region of Western Australia.Prince Regent River
The Prince Regent River is a river in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
The headwaters of the river rise in the Caroline Range near Mount Agnes then flow in a north westerly direction. The river enters and flows through the Prince Reg ...
in the north west of the Kimberley area growing in and around sandstone.[
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See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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lentiginea
Acacias of Western Australia
Plants described in 1927
Taxa named by Joseph Maiden
Taxa named by William Blakely