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Jacksonia dilatata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the northern Australia. It is usually an erect shrub or small tree with narrowly egg-shaped phylloclades, the leaves reduced scales, and yellow flowers in clusters of up to 20 at the ends of the phylloclades.
This species of Jacksonia commonly forms thickets in sandy soils on sandstone, sometimes on dunes on beaches and is mainly confined to the Arnhem Coast, Arnhem Plateau, Central Arnhem, Coolgardie, Daly Basin, Darwin Coastal, Gulf Coastal, Gulf Fall and Uplands, Gulf Plains, Ord Victoria Plain, Pine Creek, Sturt Plateau, Tiwi Cobourg and Victoria Bonaparte bioregions of the Northern Territory, but also occurs in Queensland.
Jacksonia acicularis · Jacksonia aculeata · Jacksonia alata · Jacksonia angulata · Jacksonia anthoclada · Jacksonia arenicola · Jacksonia argentea · Jacksonia arida · Jacksonia arnhemica · Jacksonia calcicola · Jacksonia calycina · Jacksonia capitata
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Jacksonia dilatata 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.
