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Acacia cuthbertsonii, commonly known as silver witchetty or pirli, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is native to the north of Western Australia and the Northern Territory. It is a bushy, often gnarled shrub or tree with silky hairy branchlets, elliptic to narrowly elliptic or linear phyllodes, spikes of golden yellow flowers and narrowly oblong to linear, curved, woody pods.
The species is found in drier areas of Western Australia and the Northern Territory, where it grows in a variety of situations including on stony rises, gibber plains, and along creeks and drainage lines in stony sandy or loamy soils.
The plant is used as an analgesic, in particular, for headaches and toothaches, by Aboriginal Australians of the Northern Territory. The wood is used to make splints to treat bone fractures. Certain parts of the tree are used to make bandages.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia cuthbertsonii 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.
