Acacia latior
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| Acacia latior | |
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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. latior |
| Binomial name | |
| Acacia latior | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
Acacia latior is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae that is endemic to western Australia.
The multi-stemmed shrub typically grows to a height of 1 to 4 m (3 ft 3 in to 13 ft 1 in) and has a rounded to obconic habit. It tends to have a dense and compact crown with sparingly fluted stems. The smooth or finely fissured bark is a brown-grey colour. It has densely silver to white hairy new shoots. The glabrous branchlets are obscurely ribbed and angular or flattened at extremities. The flat, grey-green to green coloured phyllodes have a narrowly oblanceolate to linear-elliptic shape and are straight to shallowly incurved. The pungent phyllodes have a length of 4 to 13 cm (1.6 to 5.1 in) and a width of 2 to 10 mm (0.079 to 0.394 in) with numerous longitudinal nerves that are close together.[1] The simple inflorescences occur most often in pairs on each axil, the widely ellipsoid to obloidal shaped flower-heads are 8 to 12 mm (0.31 to 0.47 in) in length and have a diameter of 5 to 7 mm (0.20 to 0.28 in) and are packed with golden coloured flowers. The straight to slightly curved seed pods that form after flowering have a length of 2 to 5 cm (0.79 to 1.97 in) and a width of 2 to 3 mm (0.079 to 0.118 in) The shiny brown seeds within the pods are arranged longitudinally and have an oblong shape with a length of 2 to 3 mm (0.079 to 0.118 in) and a white aril.[1]