''Acacia lineolata'', commonly known as dwarf myall, 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 ''Plurinerves'' that is
endemic
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to an area of south western
Australia
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.
Description
The open-branched shrub typically grows to a height of
[ and has a dense, rounded or obconic shrub habit with glabrous or hairy branchlets. 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 leathery, glabrous, evergreen, patent to ascending phyllodes have a linear to oblong-elliptic shape and are in length and wide and have numerous closely parallel, yellow nerves.[
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Taxonomy
The species belongs to the ''Acacia enervia
''Acacia enervia'' is a shrub or tree of the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Plurinerves'' that is endemic to an area of south western Australia.
Description
The shrub or tree typically grows to a height of and has a dense, rounded or obco ...
'' group of wattles.
There are two recognised subspecies
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:
* ''Acacia lineolata'' subsp. ''lineolata''
* ''Acacia lineolata'' subsp. ''multilineata''
Distribution
It is native to an area in the Wheatbelt, Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia
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where it is commonly situated on sandplains, saline flats and low lying areas growing in rocky clay, saline loam or sandy soils.Yuna
Yuna may refer to:
Geography
*Yuna River, Dominican Republic
*Yuna, Western Australia
Music
* ''Yuna'' (album), a 2012 album by Malaysian singer Yuna
* ''Yuna'' (EP), a 2008 album by Malaysian acoustic singer Yuna
People Japanese
*Yuna Aoi, wr ...
in the north west to around Pingrup
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The name of the town is Indigenous Australian in origin and was the name of a lake that is close to the townsite. The meaning of Ping ...
in the south east.[
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See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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lineolata
Acacias of Western Australia
Taxa named by George Bentham
Plants described in 1855