''Acacia plectocarpa'' is a tree or 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

endemism Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to north western

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Description

The often spindly tree or shrub typically grows to a height of but can reach up to It usually has a single stem with flakey or fissured bark that is grey to black in colour. The

glabrous Glabrousness (from the Latin ''glaber'' meaning "bald", "hairless", "shaved", "smooth") is the technical term for a lack of hair, down, setae, trichomes or other such covering. A glabrous surface may be a natural characteristic of all or part of ...

angular branchlets are yellowish to brown in colour and usually resinous. 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 leaves. The thinly coriaceous, glabrous and evergreen phyllodes have a linear to narrowly elliptic shape and are flat and stright to slightly curved. The phyllodes have a length og and a width of and ahv appressed hairs on nerves and margins with a midnerve and two more prominent secondary nerves. It blooms from March to June producing yellow flowers.

Distribution

It is native to a large area in the

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and 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

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where it is found to grow in a variety of habitats.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q9568074 plectocarpa Acacias of Western Australia Flora of the Northern Territory Taxa named by George Bentham Plants described in 1842 Flora of Queensland

Description

Distribution

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