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Acacia effusa

Acacia effusa
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
NW. Western Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Acacia effusa, commonly known as Punurunha minni ritchi, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland Western Australia. It is a low, dense, spreading, somewhat sticky shrub with minni ritchi bark, ascending oblong to narrowly elliptic phyllodes, spikes of bright golden yellow flowers and leathery, curved to coiled pods slightly raised over the seeds.

Where it grows

Punurunha minni ritchi grows in rocky red loam on lower slopes, particularly along creeks, and is only known from Hamersley Range National Park in the Pilbara bioregion of 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 effusa 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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