Acacia ophiolithica
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| Acacia ophiolithica | |
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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. ophiolithica |
| Binomial name | |
| Acacia ophiolithica | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
Acacia ophiolithica is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves where it is endemic to a small area along the south west coast of Australia.
The dense rounded shrub typically grows to a height of 0.3 to 2 metres (1 to 7 ft)[1] and has glabrous branchlets that are scarred with raised stem-projections for fallen phyllodes. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves, The slender, straight, glabrous and evergreen phyllodes are ascending to erect but are quite congested. The phyllodes are 1.5 to 4.5 cm (0.59 to 1.77 in) in length and have a diameter of 0.7 to 1 mm (0.028 to 0.039 in) and have four to eight indistinct nerves.[2] It blooms from August to October and produces yellow flowers.[1]
Taxonomy
The species was first formally described by the botanists Richard Sumner Cowan and Bruce Maslin in 1995 as a part of the work Acacia Miscellany. Five groups of microneurous species of Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae: section Plurinerves), mostly from Western Australia as published in the journal Nuytsia. It was reclassified as Racosperma ophiolithicum by Leslie Pedley in 2003 then transferred back to genus Acacia in 2014.[3] The species belong to the Acacia fragilis group but is most closely related to Acacia uncinella[2] with which it is often confused with.[3]