Acacia duriuscula

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Acacia duriuscula
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Clade: Mimosoideae
Genus: Acacia
Species:
A. duriuscula
Binomial name
Acacia duriuscula
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Acacia duriuscula is a shrub or tree of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic to an area of south western Australia.

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Description

The erect resinous shrub or tree typically grows to a height of 0.7 to 3 metres (2 to 10 ft) [1] and has glabrous branchlets. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The evergreen, ascending to erect phyllodes that have a linear to linear-elliptic shape and are straight to shallowly incurved. The leathery, glabrous phyllodes have a length of 1.5 to 9.5 cm (0.59 to 3.74 in) and a width of 1 to 4 mm (0.039 to 0.157 in) and have many closely parallel nerves with a midrib that is a little more obvious. [2] It blooms from July to October and produces yellow flowers. [1]

Description

It is native to an area in the Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia where it is commonly situated among granite outcrops and on plains growing in sandy or sandy loamy granitic soils. [1] It has a scattered distribution from around Mullewa and Paynes Find in the north to around Tammin, Cardunia Rocks and Bromus in the south as a part of scrubland communities usually dominated by various species of Eucalyptus , Acacia or Allocasuarina acutivalvis . [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Acacia duriuscula". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  2. 1 2 "Acacia duriuscula". World Wide Wattle. Western Australian Herbarium . Retrieved 14 November 2020.