Acacia mackeyana
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| Acacia mackeyana | |
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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. mackeyana |
| Binomial name | |
| Acacia mackeyana | |
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Acacia mackeyana is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic to south western Australia.
The dense pungent shrub typically grows to a height of 0.5 to 1.7 metres (2 to 6 ft)[1] and has a domed or obconic habit with hairy branchlets that have persistent thick, black and triangular stipules which are less than 1 mm (0.039 in) in length. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The ascending to erect, rigid, glabrous and evergreen phyllodes are recurved or straight with a length of 0.7 to 3 cm (0.28 to 1.18 in) in length and 1 to 2 mm (0.039 to 0.079 in) wide and sharply pungent and have 20 closely parallel nerves.[2] It blooms from June to August and produces yellow flowers.[1]