Acacia translucens

Acacia translucens, commonly known as poverty bush, is a shrub that grows on arid spinifex plains in northern Australia. It is distributed throughout the inland Pilbara and Kimberley regions of Western Australia, and east into the Victoria River region of the Northern Territory.

Poverty bush
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Clade:	Mimosoideae
Genus:	Acacia
Species:	A. translucens
Binomial name
Acacia translucens A.Cunn. ex Hook.
Occurrence data from AVH

Poverty bush is a low, spreading shrub with a flat top. It grows up to 1 metres high and 1.5 metres wide. As with many arid shrubland Acacia species, it has phyllodes instead of leaves. Its flowers are yellow, and held in spherical clusters about 5 millimetres in diameter. The seed pods are held erect above the foliage, instead of hanging down like most Acacias. The pods can be up to 9 centimetres long.

See also

• List of Acacia species

References

• "Acacia translucens". Flora of Australia Online. Department of the Environment and Heritage, Australian Government.
• "Acacia translucens". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
• A. A. Mitchell and D. G. Wilcox (1994). Arid Shrubland Plants of Western Australia (Second and Enlarged ed.). Western Australia: Department of Agriculture. ISBN 978-1-875560-22-6..