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Acacia arida, commonly known as arid wattle or false melaleuca, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It is a multi-stemmed, glabrous shrub with linear to narrowly oblong phyllodes, cylindrical spikes of golden yellow flowers, and linear pods up to 70 mm (2.8 in) long.
Arid wattle to northern Western Australia, where it grows in red sandy loam or coarse, gravelly, skeletal sandy soils over laterite or sandstone in the Carnarvon, Central Kimberley, Gascoyne, Great Sandy Desert, Northern Kimberley, Ord Victoria Plain, Pilbara and Victoria Bonaparte bioregions. It has a scattered, wide distribution within the Pilbara but generally does not dominate the vegetation. It sometimes form dense stands on many hilltops, called sky islands, particularly in the Hamersley Range and often grows in low, open Eucalypt woodland communities.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia arida 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.
