Acacia alaticaulis
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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. alaticaulis |
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Acacia alaticaulis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales in Australia. It is a spindly, slender shrub to small tree with wavy, winged ridges on the branchlets, bipinnate leaves with 7 to 17 pairs of pinnae, flowers arranged in a racemes with 8 to 41 spherical heads of flowers, each with 12 to 16 pale yellow or pale cream-coloured flowers, and curved, more or less flat pods up to 40–120 mm (1.6–4.7 in) long.
Acacia alaticaulis is a spindly, slender shrub to small tree that typically grows to a height of up to 4 m (13 ft) and has wavy, ridged branchlets, the ridges up to 3 mm (0.12 in) wide. The leaves are winged with a rachis 150–850 mm (5.9–33.5 in), the petiole up to 5 mm (0.20 in) long. The leaves are bipinnate, with up to 10 pairs of pinnae 12–60 mm (0.47–2.36 in) long, each with 7 to 17 pairs of oblong to narrowly oblong pinnules 2.5–22 mm (0.098–0.866 in) long and 0.9–3.6 mm (0.035–0.142 in) wide. The flowers are arranged in a raceme up to 335 mm (13.2 in) long with 8 to 41 spherical heads of flowers. Each head is more or less spherical, 7–11 mm (0.28–0.43 in) in diameter on a peduncle 5–17 mm (0.20–0.67 in) long with 6 to 16 pale yellow to cream-coloured. Flowering occurs from December to May. The pod is flat, usually curved, 40–120 mm (1.6–4.7 in) long and 11–13 mm (0.43–0.51 in) wide.[2][3][4][5]
Taxonomy
Acacia alaticaulis was first formally described in 2013 by Phillip Gerhard Kodela and Mary Tindale in the journal Telopea.[6] The specific epithet (alaticaulis) means "winged stem".[5]
