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Acacia elachantha is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a spindly, open shrub, rarely a tree, with branchlets covered with minute, silky hairs or glabrous, sickle-shaped phyllodes, spikes of light golden yellow flowers, and linear, straight to slightly curved, papery to leathery pods.
This species of wattle Western Australia grows mainly in the tropical arid zone between latitudes 17° and 24°S from the Kimberley and Pilbara regions of Western Australia, the Northern Territory and central and south-western Queensland and far northern South Australia. The shrub grows mainly on sandplains in deep red sand or sandy loam soils but also occurs along watercourses or drainage lines, and on low rocky hills or lateritic plains in often skeletal soils. It is often found in disturbed areas such as road verges. It is often part of tall open shrubland communities or in low open woodlands along with species of Eucalyptus.
Acacia elachantha is a fast growing but short-lived species usually dies after five years. It that regenerates rapidly from the large quantities of seed that it produces from an early age. The shrub can be used for soil rehabilitation as it is drought tolerant, fast growing and grows well in poor soils.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia elachantha 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.
