| Acacia cummingiana | |
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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. cummingiana |
| Binomial name | |
| Acacia cummingiana | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
Acacia cummingiana is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia . It is native to a small area on the Swan coastal plain and the Geraldton sandplain in Western Australia. [1]
The shrub has a sprawling, straggly, rush-like habit. It grows to a height of 0.3 to 0.5 metres (1.0 to 1.6 ft). It blooms between May and August producing yellow flowers. [1] The striate branches are green with yellow ribbing. The thin, horizontally flattened phyllodes resembling triangular scales are 1.5 to 4 millimetres (0.059 to 0.157 in) in length. The simple inflorescences have globular heads with a diameter of about 8 mm (0.315 in) containing 8 to 12 loosely packed flowers. After flowering shallowly curved seed pods that are 4 to 7 centimetres (1.6 to 2.8 in) long and 8 to 10 mm (0.31 to 0.39 in) wide. The oblong-elliptic seeds are 5 mm (0.197 in) long. [2]
The species was first formally described by the botanist Bruce Maslin in 1995 as part of the workAcacia Miscellany 13. Taxonomy of some Western Australian phyllocladinous and aphyllodinous taxa (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) as published in the journal Nuytsia. [3]
It was reclassified as Racosperma cummingianum in 2003 by Leslie Pedley and then classified back to the genus Acacia in 2006. [3]
It is found between Chittering in the south as far as Dadaragan in the north where it grows on sandplains and breakaways in grey or yellow sandy soils or in lateritic gravel. [1] It is found among closed heath communities or mixed heath and low open woodland communities containing Banksia prionotes and Eucalyptus todtiana . [2]
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