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Acacia leptophleba

Acacia leptophleba
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
NE. Western Australia to NW. Northern Territory
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Acacia leptophleba is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a rounded shrub with more or less smooth or slightly rough, grey bark, narrowly elliptic to narrowly lance-shaped, leathery rigid phyllodes, spikes of golden yellow flowers and erect, linear, woody, striated, glabrous pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle grows in sandy or rocky soils on limy sandstone, dolomite or graphite on hillsides in woodland or on plains in grassland in northern Australia, mainly in the Ord and Bow River districts and at Sturt Creek in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, and from the Victoria River (Northern Territory) and eastwards to Montejinni Station and Wave Hill in the Northern Territory.

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 leptophleba 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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