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Acacia glaucissima

Acacia glaucissima
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
S. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia glaucissima is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading, glabrous shrub with narrowly elliptic to oblong or lance-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and twisted to coiled black pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle occurs from near Mount Madden (about 40 km (25 mi) north-north-west of Ravensthorpe) to near Mount Heywood (about 85 km (53 mi) north-east of Esperance), but mainly occurs between Salmon Gums and Grass Patch and east to Mount Heywood. It grows in sand or on clay flats in open woodland with low scrub or low heath in the Mallee 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 glaucissima 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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