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Acacia hippuroides

Acacia hippuroides
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
N. Western Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Acacia hippuroides is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the north of Western Australia. It is a shrub with phyllodes arranged in whorls of twelve to fifteen, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and sessile, broadly linear, curved pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle grows in deep red sand and sandy loam in woodland, shrubland and in seepage areas in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, on the Dampier Peninsula and nearby areas on the Buccaneer and Bonaparte Archipelagos and south to the Thangoo Station, in the Central Kimberley, Dampierland, Northern Kimberley bioregions.

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 hippuroides 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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