Acacia octonervia
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| Acacia octonervia | |
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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. octonervia |
| Binomial name | |
| Acacia octonervia | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
Acacia octonervia is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic to a small area along the south western coast of Australia.
The spreading shrub typically grows to a height of 0.1 to 0.5 metres (0 to 2 ft)[1] It has glabrous red-brown branchlets that can seem quite shiny and are covered in narrowly triangular and persistent stipules that have a length of 1.5 to 2 mm (0.059 to 0.079 in). Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The rigid, cylindrical, green and erect phyllodes are straight to slightly curved with a length of 1 to 5 cm (0.39 to 1.97 in) and a diameter of 1 to 1.5 mm (0.039 to 0.059 in) and have eight distant raised nerves.[2] It blooms from August to November and produces cream-yellow flowers.[1]
Taxonomy
It is closely related to Acacia sulcata and belongs to the A. sulcata group of Acacias.[2]