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Acacia polystachya is a tree belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae that is native to north eastern Australia.
It is endemic to the parts of far north and northern Queensland in areas along the east coast. The northern range of the tree extends as far north as Banks Island in the Torres Strait down to along the eastern side of Cape York Peninsula to around Cairns in the south and has also been found on Palm Island. It is found along beaches and creeks and rivers where it grows in alluvial soils often as a part of vine thicket communities.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia polystachya 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.
