''Acacia ligustrina'' 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 south western
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
.
Description
The spreading shrub or tree typically grows to a height of .
[ The branchlets of the plants are covered with more or less straight hairs. 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 phyllodes are often shallowly recurved and have an asymmetrical oblong-elliptic or narrowly elliptic shape. The thinly coriaceous phyllodes are in length and with a non-prominent midrib.[
]
Distribution
It is native to an area in the Mid West
The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2"). It occupies the northern central part of the United States. I ...
and Wheatbelt regions of Western Australia where it is commonly situated on low hills, around salt flats and depressions growing in loamy, clay or sandy clay soils often containing lateritic
Laterite is both a soil and a rock type rich in iron and aluminium and is commonly considered to have formed in hot and wet tropical areas. Nearly all laterites are of rusty-red coloration, because of high iron oxide content. They develop by ...
gravel.
See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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ligustrina
Acacias of Western Australia
Taxa named by Carl Meissner
Plants described in 1848