''Acacia wetarensis'' 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 the
Indonesian island of
Wetar and
Atauro Island of
Timor-Leste in the
Lesser Sunda Islands
The Lesser Sunda Islands or nowadays known as Nusa Tenggara Islands ( id, Kepulauan Nusa Tenggara, formerly ) are an archipelago in Maritime Southeast Asia, north of Australia. Together with the Greater Sunda Islands to the west they make up t ...
.
See also
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List of ''Acacia'' species
References
wetarensis
Endemic flora of the Lesser Sunda Islands
Taxa named by Leslie Pedley
Plants described in 1975
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