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Acacia disticha

Acacia disticha
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia disticha is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a glabrous, spreading shrub with phyllodes arranged in vertical rows on opposite sides of the ends of flattened branchlets, spherical heads of cream-coloured flowers and narrowly oblong, crusty to woody pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle grows on sand, rocky loam and limestone soils amongst rocks and along watercourses in tall shrubland or closed scrub where it dominates he low scrub layer. It is an uncommon species, mostly confined to the Fitzgerald River National Park, but also in the Corackerup Nature Reserve 100 km (62 mi) to the west-south-west and the Ravensthorpe Range abpout 40 km (25 mi) to the north east, in the Esperance Plains bioregion of south-western 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 disticha 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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