Biology:Acacia maxwellii

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Acacia maxwellii
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. maxwellii
Binomial name
Acacia maxwellii
Maiden & Blakely
"Acacia maxwellii" occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium
Acacia maxwellii occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium[1]

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).[2] 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.[3] It blooms from September to October and produces yellow-cream flowers.[2]

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.[2] 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.[3]

See also

References

Wikidata ☰ Q15287775 entry