Acacia pteraneura

Acacia pteraneura is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae that is endemic to arid areas of central Australia.

Acacia pteraneura
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Clade: Mimosoideae
Genus: Acacia
Species:
A. pteraneura
Binomial name
Acacia pteraneura
Maslin & J.E.Reid
Occurrence data from AVH

Description

The plant either grows as a shrub to a height of around 3 m (9.8 ft) or as a tree with a height of 6 to 8 m (20 to 26 ft) that sometimes resembles a conifer and they has straightish to crooked trunks and main branche. The hoary red-brown to dark grey branchlets have resinous or non-resinous ribs at the extremities. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The evergreen phyllodes have a green to grey-green colour are sometimes curved to sinuous or have a sigmoid shape with a length of 40 to 100 mm (1.6 to 3.9 in) that appear in clusters of two to five on juvenile plants.[1]

Distribution

It is native to the Pilbara, Mid West and Goldfields regions of Western Australia.[2] where the bulk of the population is found from around Gascoyne Junction in the west to around Yalgoo and then extending east into the Northern Territory and South Australia where it is found in many different types of habitats but usually situated on stony plains growing in sandy loam, clay or sandy soils commonly over hardpan as a part of mixed open Mulga shrubland or woodland communities.[1]

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See also

References
  1. "Acacia pteraneura Maslin & J.E.Reid". Wattle - Acacias of Australia. Lucid Central. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  2. "Acacia pteraneura". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
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