Acacia lanuginophylla
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| Wooly wattle | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Caesalpinioideae |
| Clade: | Mimosoid clade |
| Genus: | Acacia |
| Species: | A. lanuginophylla |
| Binomial name | |
| Acacia lanuginophylla | |
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| Occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium | |
Acacia lanuginophylla, or woolly wattle,[1] is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic to south western Australia. It is currently listed as a vulnerable species according to the Environment Protection Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.[1]
The shrub typically grows to a height of 0.5 to 1.2 metres (2 to 4 ft)[2] and has a dense to erect, open, domed or spreading habit. The wooly branchlets have yellow-green new shoots. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves, The densely wooly grey-green phyllodes have a narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong-oblanceolate shape with a length of 1.5 to 4 cm (0.59 to 1.57 in) and a width of 3.5 to 10 mm (0.14 to 0.39 in) and have three main longitudinal nerves and with noticeable secondary nerves.[1] It blooms from July to October and produces yellow flowers.[2]
Taxonomy
The species was first formally described by the botanists Bruce Maslin and Richard Sumner Cowan in 1990 as part of the work Acacia Miscellany. Some oligoneurous species of Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae: Section Plurinerves) from Western Australia as published in the journal Nuytsia. It was reclassified as Racosperma lanuginophyllum by Leslie Pedley in 2003 then returned to genus Acacia in 2005.[3]