''Acacia pellita'' 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 ''Juliflorae'' that is endemic to parts of tropical northern

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Description

The shrub or tree typically grows to a height of and has grey or brown coloured bark that is slightly fibrous. It has slightly angular ribbed branchlets that are covered by a dense matting of woolly 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 have a narrowly elliptic shape with a length of and a width of . The papery to slightly coriaceous phyllodes have two to four prominent main nerves that are concurrent with each other. It blooms from May to August producing yellow flowers. The cylindrical flower-spikes are in length and packed with golden coloured flowers. After flowering densely haired seed pods form that are tightly coiled in masses with a length of around and a width of with longitudinally arranged seeds inside. The black coloured seeds have an oblong shape and are in length with an oblong open areole.

Distribution

It is native to a large area in the Northern Territory and the

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region of Western Australia where the plant will grow in sandy or loamy soils and prefers damp conditions. It is often situated along creek banks growing in sandy soils as a part of '' Eucalyptus'' woodland communities where it is often found in shady locations on or around sandstone or laterite.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15288235 pellita Acacias of Western Australia Flora of the Northern Territory Plants described in 1927

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