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Acacia sibilans
Acacia sibilans, commonly known as the whispering myall, is a shrub or tree of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves thar is endemic to an arid areas of central western Australia.
It is native to an area in the Mid West, Gascoyne, Pilbara and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia where it is commonly situated on alluvial flats growing in sandy of loamy soils often over or around limestone. The bulk of the population is found in the Gascoyne and in the upper catchment of the Murchison River with the range extending from Shark Bay in the west to around Mileura Station in the east. Other disjunct populations are found in the Pilbara from around Roy Hill Station and Ethel Creek Station. In the west the tree is usually a part of low chenopodiaceous shrubland communities but is eastern areas it more often part of scrublands featuring other species of Acacia including Acacia paraneura, Acacia xiphophylla and Acacia pruinocarpa or on flat spinifex plains.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia sibilans 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.
