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Acacia cataractae is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the Top End of the Northern Territory, Australia. It is a shrub with brown bark, lance-shaped to narrowly lance-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, spikes of bright to golden yellow flowers, and crust-like woody pods up to 50 mm (2.0 in) long.
This species is endemic to the Top End of the Northern Territory, where it is usually found on sandy soil in sandstone country amongst rocks and boulders in woodland, in the Arnhem Coast, Arnhem Plateau, Daly Basin, Pine Creek, Tiwi Cobourg and Victoria Bonaparte bioregions.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia cataractae 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.
