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Acacia brachypoda
Acacia brachypoda is a dense, rounded, sticky wattle shrup from south-west Western Australia, growing 1 to 3 m high, endangered in the wild. It suits damp, low-lying sites with sandy-clay or loam soil.
Acacia brachypoda, known colloquially as western wheatbelt wattle is an endangered species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a dense, rounded, sticky shrub with broad, flat branchlets, straight to slightly curved, terete to flat and linear phyllodes, spherical heads of golden-yellow flowers, and curved, wavy or coiled, thinly leathery to crust-like pods.
This species of wattle is endemic to a small area between Beverley, Brookton and York in the Avon Wheatbelt and Jarrah Forest bioregions of Western Australia where it is found in damp low-lying areas such as swamps in sandy-clay or loam soils. There are six populations of the wattle that are found in two main areas with an estimated 5000 recorded individuals remaining. One of the populations is found within the Wandoo National Park while the others are along roadsides and in railway reserve remnants. It is found in open woodland communities as part of a dense understorey. It is commonly associated with Eucalyptus wandoo or species of Allocasuarina, Callistemon phoeniceum, Hakea varia, species of Leptospermum and Melaleuca.
Acacia abbatiana · Acacia abbreviata · Acacia abrupta · Acacia acanthaster · Harrow Wattle · Acacia acellerata · Gold-dust acacia · Acacia aciphylla · Acacia acoma · Acacia acradenia · Strap Leaved Wattle · Acacia acuaria
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia brachypoda by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
