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Acacia bivenosa
Acacia bivenosa, commonly known as two-nerved wattle, two-veined wattle, hill umbrella bush, dune wattle or Cable Beach wattle is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a bushy, rounded or spreading shrub with narrowly elliptic, oblong or egg-shaped to lance-shaped phyllodes, rich golden-yellow flowers in spherical heads, and erect, crust-like to more or less woody pods up to 80 mm (3.1 in) long.
Other names for this species are derived from several Indigenous languages.
Two-nerved wattle is widespread in arid areas of northern Australia. It is common in the Carnarvon, Central Kimberley, Central Ranges, Dampierland, Gascoyne, Great Sandy Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Ord Victoria Plain, Pilbara, Tanami and Yalgoobio bioregions of Western Australia and the Northern Territory. It is also found in western Queensland, north of 25°S, with an outlier on Dorre Island, Shark Bay, Western Australia. It grows in various kinds of soils, including coastal sand, on rocky hills and gullies, in shrubland and open woodland, and is often associated with spinifex.
The bush can be heavily grazed by stock, especially as a seedling. Indigenous Australians used to find edible grubs from around the roots. It is often used in land rehabilitation as a primary colonizer.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia bivenosa 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.
