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Acacia desertorum

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

About

Acacia desertorum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the southern inland of Western Australia. It is a shrub with terete phyllodes, tooth-like stipules, spherical heads of bright golden yellow flowers and more or less linear, thinly leathery pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle has a disjunct distribution, occurring in the Southern Cross and Coolgardie areas, and in the Great Victoria Desert in the Coolgardie, Great Victoria Desert and Murchison bioregions of southern 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 desertorum 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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