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Acacia imitans
Acacia imitans, also commonly known as Gibson wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is restricted to a small area of inland Western Australia. It is a low, dense, spreading, prickly shrub with asymmetically bow-shaped or widely elliptic phyllodes, oblong to short cylindrical heads of golden yellow flowers and tightly coiled, firmly papery pods.
Gibson wattle grows on rocky hills in rocky red loamy soils on slopes in tall shrubland and is only known from six subpopulations in the area around Mount Singleton, about 300 km (190 mi) north east of Perth in the Yalgoo bioregion of inland Western Australia. Four of these subpopulations are found about Ningham Station and two at Mount Gibson Station. The total population is estimated at 550 mature plants.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia imitans 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.
