Biology:Acacia diallaga

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Short description: Species of legume

Acacia diallaga

Priority One — Poorly Known Taxa (DEC)
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Acacia
Species:
A. diallaga
Binomial name
Acacia diallaga
Maslin & Buscumb

Acacia diallaga is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae that is endemic to Western Australia.

Description

The intricate shrub typically grows to a height of 0.5 to 1.5 mm (0.020 to 0.059 in) but can reach as high as 3 m (9.8 ft) and has a dense spreading habit. It has glabrous and lenticellular obscurely ribbed branchlets. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The glabrous, rigid, green to grey-green to blue-green phyllodes have a narrowly elliptic to oblong-elliptic or somewhat lanceolate shape are a little asymmetric. The phyllodes are straight to slightly recurved with a length of 11 to 36 mm (0.43 to 1.42 in) and a width of 3 to 7 mm (0.12 to 0.28 in) and pungent with three main nerves.[1] The phyllodes change colour to a purple red colour in times of drought and revert to the regular colour following rains.

Distribution

It is native to a small area in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia around Perenjori.[2] near Karara and Warriedar Stations to the east of Morawa where it is often situated on slopes or crests of low rocky hills growing in skeletal soils as a part of Allocasuarina or Acacia shrubland communities.[1]

See also

References

Wikidata ☰ Q24190084 entry