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Acacia acoma

Acacia acoma
Photo: Hugo Innes, CC BY 4.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SC. Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Acacia acoma is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland areas of south-western Western Australia. It is an erect, spindly, open or spreading shrub with variably-shaped, often narrowly oblong phyllodes, flowers arranged in spherical heads, usually arranged in pairs in leaf axils, and strongly curved or spirally coiled pods up to 15 mm (0.59 in) long when expanded.

Where it grows

This acacia grows on roadsides, low hills, or ridges in whipstick mallee or gimlet woodland mainly from near Hyden to the Bremer Range in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie and Mallee bioregions of inland south-western Western Australia.

Other Acacia plants

Acacia abbatiana · Acacia abbreviata · Acacia abrupta · Acacia acanthaster · Harrow Wattle · Acacia acellerata · Gold-dust acacia · Acacia aciphylla · Acacia acradenia · Strap Leaved Wattle · Acacia acuaria · Snake Wattle

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia acoma by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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