| Acacia kenneallyi | |
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| Isotype K000821285 [1] | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Clade: | Mimosoideae |
| Genus: | Acacia |
| Species: | A. kenneallyi |
| Binomial name | |
| Acacia kenneallyi | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
Acacia kenneallyi is a shrub or tree of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic to north western Australia.
The spindly shrub or tree typically grows to a height of 2 to 7 metres (7 to 23 ft) [2] and has terete and glabrous branchlets that are often covered in a fine white powdery coating. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The glabrous, leathery and evergreen phyllodes have a narrowly elongate-elliptic to linear shape and are straight to slightly curved with a length of 15 to 25 cm (5.9 to 9.8 in) and a width of 6 to 14 mm (0.24 to 0.55 in) and have one prominent central nerve, with a second weaker longitudinal nerve occasionally present. [3] It blooms from May to June and produces yellow flowers. [2] The axillary or terminal inflorescences have spherical flower-heads with a diameter of about 5 mm (0.20 in) and contain 46 to 56 densely packed golden coloured flowers. The leathery to sub-woody seed pods that form after flowering have a linear shape and are flat and straight with a length of up to around 11 cm (4.3 in) and a width of 10 to 11 mm (0.39 to 0.43 in). [3]
The species is closely related to Acacia spectra and Acacia latescens as well as Acacia orthotropica to which it is superficially dissimilar. [3]
It is native to an area in the Kimberely, region of Western Australia where it is commonly situated in areas of sandstone or dolerite growing in skeletal sandy soils. [2] It is mostly found on the Bonaparte Archipelago and parts of the nearby mainland and also off-shore including on Heywood Island and Bigge Island as a part of Eucalyptus woodland communities. [3]
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