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Acacia gilesiana
Acacia gilesiana, commonly known as Giles' wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to arid parts of south-western Australia. It is an erect, spreading, glabrous shrub with ascending to erect, rigid, terete phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and narrowly oblong, leathery pods, slightly constricted between the seeds.
Giles' wattle mostly grows in deep red sand in low woodland and tall shrubland from the Neale Junction in the Coolgardie, Gibson Desert, Great Victoria Desert and Little Sandy Desert of Western Australia to Maralinga in South Australia with the type locality 300 km (190 mi) further east. It often grows with often in association with mulga and spinifex.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia gilesiana 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.
