''Acacia nigricans'' is a species of
wattle
Wattle or wattles may refer to:
Plants
*''Acacia sensu lato'', polyphyletic genus of plants commonly known as wattle, especially in Australia and South Africa
**''Acacia'', large genus of shrubs and trees, native to Australasia
**Black wattle, c ...
which is endemic to an area on the south coast 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 ...
.
Description
The shrub typically grows to a height of
[ and has hairy and ribbed branchlets with persistent and patent stipules. The leaves are composed of two pairs of pinnae with the proximal pinnae having a length of and the distal pinnae having a length of , these in turn are made up of two pairs of proximal pinnules and three to eight pairs of distal pinnules all of which have an oblong to narrowly oblong with a length of and a width of .]
Taxonomy
The species was formally described in 1807 by French naturalist Jacques Labillardière who gave it the name ''Mimosa nigricans'', based on plant material collected from Esperance.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 ...
'' in 1813 by botanist Robert Brown.
Distribution
It is often situated on coastal sand dunes, on granite hills and among rocks growing in grey or white sandy soils along the south coast of Western Australia in the Goldfields-Esperance regions.[ The bulk of the population extends from around Barker Inlet, about west of Esperance in the west out to around ]Israelite Bay
Israelite Bay is a bay and locality on the south coast of Western Australia.
Situated in the Shire of Esperance local government area, it lies east of Esperance and the Cape Arid National Park, within the Nuytsland Nature Reserve and the Grea ...
in the east and extending inland to near Howick Hill, and is also found on several islands in the Recherche Archipelago usually as a part of heath and scrub communities.[
]
See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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nigricans
Acacias of Western Australia
Fabales of Australia
Plants described in 1813
Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)
Taxa named by Jacques Labillardière