''Acacia preissiana'' is a shrub of 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 ''Pulchellae'' that is
endemic to an area of south western
Australia
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.
Description
The low spreading multi-stemmed shrub typically grows to a height of
[ with a Prostrate to semi-prostrate habit with a lignotuber and hairy branchlets that have oblong to widely ovate stipules. The leaves are composed of two or three pairs of pinnae where the proximal pinnae have a length of and the distal pinnae have a length of . The proximal pinne and composed of two to three pairs of pinnules while the distal pinnae are composed of three to seven pairs of pinnules that are in length and about wide.][
]
Etymology
''A. preissiana'' was first described as ''Acacia obscura'' var. ''preissiana'' by Carl Meissner in 1842,
Distribution
It is native to an area in the South West
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, Peel
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Places Australia
* Peel (Western Australia)
* Peel Island, Queensland
*Peel, New South Wales
* Peel River (New South Wales)
Canada
* Peel Parish, New Brunswick
* Peel, New Brunswick, an unincorporated communi ...
and Great Southern regions of Western Australia where it is commonly found growing in lateritic
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based soils.Whicher Range
Whicher Range, also known as Whicher Scarp, is a range in the South West region of Western Australia.
The range has an average elevation of above sea level.
Bounded by the Swan Coastal Plain to the west and the south, the Darling Scarp to th ...
in the south. A single collection of the species has been made from around Albany where it is usually a part of '' Eucalyptus marginata'' or ''Eucalyptus wandoo
''Eucalyptus wandoo'', commonly known as wandoo, dooto, warrnt or wornt, is a small to medium-sized tree that is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of nine to sev ...
'' forest communities.[
]
See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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preissiana
Acacias of Western Australia
Taxa named by Bruce Maslin
Taxa named by Carl Meissner
Plants described in 1842