''Acacia serpentinicola'' is a species of wattle native to northern New South Wales.
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Description
The shrub typically grows to a height of about and has a spreading habit. It has
glabrous, terete dark greyish brown 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 glabrous, pungent and subrigid phyllodes are flat and curved to straight with a linear to narrowly oblanceolate shape. The phyllodes are in length and wide and have a slightly impressed midvein. It mostly blooms between August and October.
Taxonomy
It belongs to the ''
Acacia juncifolia
''Acacia juncifolia'', commonly known as rush-leaf wattle, is a shrub or tree belonging to the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Phyllodineae'' that is endemic to north eastern Australia.
Description
The shrub or tree typically grows to a hei ...
'' group and was once regarded as a
subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...
of the much more widespread ''A. juncifolia''.
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Distribution
It has a limited distribution in north eastern New South Wales where it found on serpentinite ridges between Mount George and Bralga Tops[ and upper areas of the Barnard River where it is situated in rugged parts of the ]Great Dividing Range
The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansive collection of mountain ranges, plateaus and rolling hills, that runs rough ...
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See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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serpentinicola
Flora of New South Wales
Plants described in 2006
Taxa named by Leslie Pedley