''Acacia synoria'' is a tree or shrub, also known as goodlands wattle,
[ 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
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 a small area of western Australia.
Description
The multi-stemmed tree or shrub typically grows to a height of [ and has an obconic habit and has glabrous 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 light green and terete phyllodes have with delicate brown points. The phyllodes grow to a length of and a width of and are not particularly rigid and usually shallowly incurved. The mostly glabrous phyllodes have eight longitudinal nerves each of which is separated by a distinct, longitudinal groove.[
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Distribution
It is native to an area in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
between Yalgoo and Dalwallinu where it is often situated around granite
Granite () is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies undergro ...
outcrops, alongside creeklines and near gravel pits growing in sandy clay or sandy loam soils.
See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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synoria
Acacias of Western Australia
Taxa named by Bruce Maslin
Plants described in 2007