Biology:Acacia crenulata

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Short description: Species of legume

Acacia crenulata

Priority Three — Poorly Known Taxa (DEC)
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Acacia
Species:
A. crenulata
Binomial name
Acacia crenulata
R.S.Cowan & Maslin
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Occurrence data from AVH

Acacia crenulata is a shrub or tree of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic to a small area of south western Australia .

Description

The bushy shrub or tree typically grows to a height of 0.7 to 3 metres (2 to 10 ft)[1] and can have a rounded or obconic habit. It has glabrous branchlets with crenulate-resinous ribbing. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The glabrous, leathery and evergreen phyllodes have a narrowly elliptic to linear-elliptic shape with a length of 2 to 6 cm (0.79 to 2.36 in) and a width of 2 to 6 mm (0.079 to 0.236 in) with yellowish and resinous margins and a prominent central nerve with many indistinct closely parallel secondary nerves.[2] It produces yellow flowers.[1]

Distribution

It is native to an area in the Goldfields-Esperance and the Wheatbelt regions of Western Australia where it is commonly situated on breakaways, among granite outcrops and on rocky rises growing in sandy or clay soils.[1] It is found in the Chiddarcooping Rock and Walyahmoning Rock areas near Bullabulling as a part of low Eucalyptus wandoo woodland communities and is often associated with other species of Acacia, Allocasuarina campestris and Melaleuca uncinata.[2]

See also

References

Wikidata ☰ Q9563713 entry