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Acacia rhodophloia
Also called Western Red Mulga
Acacia rhodophloia, commonly known as minni ritchi or western red mulga, is a tree or shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae that is endemic to a large area of arid central western Australia. The Indigenous group the Kurrama peoples know the plant as mantaru.
It is native to a large area in the Northern Territory and the Pilbara, Goldfields, Mid West and Kimberley regions of Western Australia where it is commonly situated on granite outcrops, sand plains and rocky hills and rises growing in sandy to gravelly soils. The range of the plant extends into the Northern Territory to around the Ehrenberg Range in the east and to Docker Creek and Bloods Range in the south with one population being recorded in South Australia to the north of Tarcoola It is known to grow in rocky areas in red-brown loamy to loamy clay soils usually as a part of Mulga communities where it can form small nearly pure stands but is also associated with scrub heath, Casuarina scrub communities or commonly found along with spinifex.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia rhodophloia 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.
