| Chinchilla wattle | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Clade: | Mimosoideae |
| Genus: | Acacia |
| Species: | A. chinchillensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Acacia chinchillensis | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
Acacia chinchillensis, commonly known as the chinchilla wattle, is a species of Acacia native to eastern Australia. [1]
The shrub typically grows to a height of 0.3 to 2 metres (1 to 7 ft) and a width of 1 to 2 m (3 ft 3 in to 6 ft 7 in). It has smooth grey to green bark. It terete with inconspicuous ridges and soft white hair on branchlets. [1] The leaves have a bipinnate shape with three to four pairs of pinnae each with 6 to 14 leaflets with a narrowly oblong shape. It produces golden or yellow spherical flower heads. The linear, hairy seed pods that forma later are flat but raised over the seeds with a length of 7 to 8 cm (2.8 to 3.1 in) and a width of 4 to 5 mm (0.16 to 0.20 in). [2]
The species was first formally described by the botanist Mary Tindale in 1978 as part of the work Notes on Australian taxa of Acacia as published in the journal Telopea . It was reclassified as Racosperma chinchillense in 1987 by Leslie Pedley and transferred back into the genus Acacia in 2001. [3]
The species is native to an area of south west Queensland and found in the Darling Downs around the towns of Chinchilla, Tara, Cecil Plains and Karara. A population of around 100,000 individual trees were estimated to inhabit the surround state forests. The shrub is often part of the understorey in low woodland to open forest communities. [2]
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