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Acacia hexaneura
Also called Six Nerve Spine Bush
Acacia hexaneura, also known as Cowell spine-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is a dense, spreading, rigid shrub with sessile, linear, rigid, sharply pointed phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and linear, crusty pods.
Cowell spine-bush has a limited distribution in the north eastern part of the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia from around Kimba and Cowell where it is usually found on small quartzite hills, often with limestone or ironstone bedrock and growing in gravelly loams and sandy soils that are well drained.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia hexaneura 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.
