''Acacia macraneura'', commonly known as big mac wattle,
[ 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 native to arid parts of western Australia
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.
Description
The multi-stemmed shrub typically grows to a height of with a spreading habit but it is occasionally found as an obconic tree with a height of that has crooked stems and branches. The slightly hairy branchlets often have obscure resinous ribbing near the extremities. 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 green to grey-green phyllodes have a blueish coloured tinge and are incurved or sigmoid to sinuous. The usually terete phyllodes have a length of and a diameter of with many obscure longitudinal nerves.
Distribution
It is endemic to the Mid West
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and Pilbara regions of Western Australia.Mount Magnet
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in the south west to around Leonora in the south east to the Pilbara region and around the Rudall River catchment and the Little Sandy Desert
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with smaller populations close to the border with South Australia.[
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See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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macraneura
Acacias of Western Australia
Plants described in 2012
Taxa named by Bruce Maslin