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Acacia maxwellii
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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. maxwellii
Binomial name
Acacia maxwellii
Maiden & Blakely
"Acacia maxwellii" occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium
Acacia maxwellii occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium

Acacia maxwellii is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae that is endemic to south western Australia.

Description

The low domed shrub typically grows to a height of 0.1 to 0.4 metres (0.3 to 1.3 ft). It has hairy branchlets with subpersistent 1 to 2 mm (0.039 to 0.079 in) long stipules. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The thick, glabrous and evergreen phyllodes are erect with a linear shape that is straight to shallowly curved. The phyllodes have a length of 1.5 to 6 cm (0.59 to 2.36 in) and a width of 1 to 3 mm (0.039 to 0.118 in) and an impressed midrib. It blooms from September to October and produces yellow-cream flowers.

Distribution

It is native to an area along the south coast in the Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia where it is commonly situated on flats, undulating plains and along watercourses growing in sandy, sandy clay, loamy or gravelly soils. The range of the plant extends from around the Stirling Range in the north west to around Israelite Bay where it is usually a part of shrub mallee and mallee heath communities.

See also

References

  1. "DOI Details". doi.ala.org.au. doi:10.26197/5c0b1388984eb. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  2. ^ "Acacia maxwellii". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  3. ^ "Acacia maxwellii". World Wide Wattle. Western Australian Herbarium. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
Taxon identifiers
Acacia maxwellii
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