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Acacia lunata

Acacia lunata
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
E. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia lunata, commonly known as lunate-leaved acacia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales, Australia. It is a shrub with glabrous branchlets, lance-shaped to narrowly elliptic phyllodes, spherical heads of bright golden yellow flowers, and narrowly oblong, firmly papery to thinly leathery pods.

Where it grows

Lunate-leaved acacia is found from Putty and Cessnock and south to Riochmond and Dural and at Bralga Tops. It usually grows in forest on sandstone, often on slopes near creeks.

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 lunata 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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