Acacia benthamii
| Acacia benthamii | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Caesalpinioideae |
| Clade: | Mimosoid clade |
| Genus: | Acacia |
| Species: | A. benthamii
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| Binomial name | |
| Acacia benthamii | |
Acacia benthamii is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves. It is native to an area along the west coast in the Perth metropolitan region and Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.[1]
Description
The shrub typically grows to a height of 1 to 3 metres (3 to 10 ft).[1] It has ribbed glabrous branchlets with new shoots that are minutely woolly and with caducous stipules with a length of 1.5 to 2 mm (0.059 to 0.079 in). The pungent linear green phyllodes are attenuate at both ends and commonly inequilateral and have a length of 2 to 4.5 cm (0.79 to 1.77 in) and a width of 2 to 4 mm (0.079 to 0.157 in) with two or three main nerves per face.[2] It blooms from August to September and produces yellow flowers.[1] The spherical flower-heads have a diameter of 5 mm (0.20 in) and contain 27 to 35 golden flowers that are sharply inflexed.[2]
Taxonomy
The species was first formally described by the botanist Carl Meissner in 1844 as published in the Johann Georg Christian Lehmann work Plantae Preissianae. It was reclassified as Racosperma benthamii by Leslie Pedley in 2003 then returned to genus Acacia in 2006.[3]
Distribution
It is endemic to the west of Western Australia from around Dandaragan in the north[1] to around Subiaco in the south and is commonly found on limestone breakaways.[2]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d "Acacia benthamii". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
- ^ a b c "Acacia benthamii Meisn". Wattle - Acacias of Australia. Department of the Environment and Energy. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|work=(help) - ^ "Acacia benthamii Meisn". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 22 July 2019.