Acacia galeata

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Acacia galeata
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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. galeata
Binomial name
Acacia galeata
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Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms [1]

Racosperma galeatum(Maslin) Pedley

Acacia galeata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the western of Western Australia. It is a bushy shrub or tree with glabrous branchlets, narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and leathery to woody pods resembling a string of beads, strongly raised over, and more or less constricted between the seeds.

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Description

Acacia galeata is a bushy, rounded shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of 1–6 m (3 ft 3 in – 19 ft 8 in) and has glabrous branchlets. Its phyllodes are narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped, straight to slightly sickle-shaped, 60–110 mm (2.4–4.3 in) long and 6–15 mm (0.24–0.59 in) wide, rather glaucous, usually with two or three main veins. The flowers are born in three to five spherical heads in racemes on peduncles 4–7 mm (0.16–0.28 in) long, each head 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) in diameter with 35 to 45 golden yellow flowers. Flowering occurs from April to June, and the pods resemble a string of beads, up to 180 mm (7.1 in) long, 7–8 mm (0.28–0.31 in) wide and leathery to more or less woody, raised over and more or less constricted between the seeds. The seeds are broadly elliptic to oblong, up to 7.5 mm (0.30 in) long, slightly glossy dark brown with a large, hood-shaped aril. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Taxonomy

Acacia galeata was first formally described in 1983 by Bruce Maslin from specimens collected 12 km (7.5 mi) north of the Woodleigh turn of on the North West Coastal Highway in 1982. [2] [7] The specific epithet (galeata) means 'helmeted', and refers to the prominent, hood-shaped aril. [2] [8]

Distribution and habitat

This species of wattle grows in sand and loam in scrub, shrubland and low woodland in the Shark Bay area from around Wooramel Station to Nerren Nerren Station and on Dorre and Dirk Hartog Islands in the Carnarvon and Yalgoo bioregions in the west of Western Australia. [3] [6]

Conservation status

Acacia galeata is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. [6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Acacia galeata". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 19 January 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 Maslin, Bruce R. (1983). "Studies in the genus Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) - 14. New taxa from north-west Western Australia". Nuytsia. 4 (3): 394–398. Retrieved 19 January 2026.
  3. 1 2 Cowan, Richard S.; Maslin, Bruce R. "Acacia galeata". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. Retrieved 19 January 2026.
  4. ↑ "Acacia galeata". World Wide Wattle. Retrieved 19 January 2026.
  5. ↑ "Acacia galeata". Australian Biological Research Study. Retrieved 19 January 2026.
  6. 1 2 3 "Acacia galeata". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  7. ↑ "Acacia galeata". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 19 January 2026.
  8. ↑ George, Alex S.; Sharr, Francis A. (2023). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings - A Glossary (fifth ed.). Kardinya: Four Gables Press. p. 208. ISBN   9780645629538.
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