| Acacia gilbertii | |
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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. gilbertii |
| Binomial name | |
| Acacia gilbertii | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
Acacia gilbertii is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Pulchellae that is endemic to an area of south western Australia.
The erect slender shrub typically grows to a height of 0.3 to 1.5 metres (1 to 5 ft) [1] and has glabrous branchlets. The leaves are composed of one or two pairs of pinnae that are 1.5 to 4 cm (0.59 to 1.57 in) in length and three to seven pairs of light green pinnules which have reddish coloured new growth and have an narrowly oblong to oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic shape that are 8 to 20 mm (0.31 to 0.79 in) in length and 3 to 5 mm (0.12 to 0.20 in) wide. [2] It blooms from October to February and produces white flowers. [1]
The species was first formally described by the botanist Carl Meisner in 1848 as a part of the Johann Georg Christian Lehmann work Plantae Preissianae . It was reclassified as Racosperma gilbertii in 2003 by Leslie Pedley and was then transferred back to genus Acacia in 2006. [3]
It is native to an area in the Wheatbelt and South West regions of Western Australia where it is found growing in gravelly lateritic soils. [1] The shrub has a scattered distribution from around York in the north down to around Augusta in the south and out to near Denmark in the south east as a part of Eucalyptus woodland or Eucalyptus marginata forest communities. [2]
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