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Acacia calcarata

Acacia calcarata
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
S. Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Acacia calcarata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland Western Australia. It is a spreading, prickly shrub with rigid, slightly curved and kinked phyllodes, spherical heads of golden-yellow flowers, and narrowly oblong pods.

Where it grows

Acacia calcarata grows in loam in open mallee scrub or tall shrubland near Bullabulling and Kalgoorlie, and south-east to Woodline near Norseman, in the Coolgardie and Murchison bioregions of inland Western Australia.

Other Acacia plants

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 calcarata 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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