Acacia meisneri
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| Acacia meisneri | |
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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. meisneri |
| Binomial name | |
| Acacia meisneri | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
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Acacia meisneri is a species of shrub in the family Fabaceae.[1][2] It belongs to the subgenus Phyllodineae and is endemic to an area in south western Australia.
The dense much-branched shrub typically grows to a height of 1.0 to 4.0 metres (3.3 to 13.1 ft).[3] It has a funnel-shaped or rounded habit with glabrous branchlets that are usually covered with a fine, white powdery coating. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The grey to grey-green coloured phyllodes have an elliptic to oblanceolate or obovate shape with a length of 15 to 40 mm (0.59 to 1.57 in) and a width of 5 to 15 mm (0.20 to 0.59 in) that are obtuse to acute with one nerve per face and a powdery white coating.[4] It blooms from November to February[3] but can flower sporadically throughout the year.[4]
Taxonomy
The species was first formally described in 1842 by Johann Georg Christian Lehmann as part of the work Delectus Seminum quae in Horto Hamburgensium botanico e collectione. It was later described by Carl Meissner in 1844 in Plantae Preissianae. It was reclassified as Racosperma meisneri by Leslie Pedley in 2003 then transferred back to genus Acacia in 2006.[5]