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Acacia heteroclita

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

About

Acacia heteroclita is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub or tree with linear to lance-shaped, more or less curved leathery phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and narrowly oblong to linear, straight pods slightly raised over the seeds.

Where it grows

This species of wattle occurs sporadically from Kulin and south to the Porongurup Range and east to Cape Le Grand National Park and nearby islands in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee bioregions 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 heteroclita 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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