Acacia praetermissa
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| Acacia praetermissa | |
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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. praetermissa |
| Binomial name | |
| Acacia praetermissa | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
Acacia praetermissa is a species of wattle native to a small area in the Northern Territory of Australia.[1] It was listed as vulnerable in 2006 according to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.[2]
The shrub to typically grows to a height of 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) and has multiple stems and can resprout from perennial rootstock after a bushfire. It has blotchy blue-grey coloured bark with a smooth texture and purple-brown terete branchlets that are often covered in a fine white powdery coating. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The spreading phyllodes have a narrowly oblanceolate to elliptic shape and are slightly sickle shaped. They have a length of 9 to 18 cm (3.5 to 7.1 in) and a width of 3 to 18 mm (0.12 to 0.71 in) and have a prominent mid-nerve and two to four less prominent nerves. It blooms between February and August producing cylindrical flower-spikes that are 1 to 2.7 cm (0.39 to 1.06 in) in length and packed with golden coloured flowers. Following flowering it produces glabrous woody seed pods that have a more or less linear to narrowly oblanceolate shape. The flat pods have straight sides or a little constricted between each of the seeds and have a length of 4.5 to 10.5 cm (1.8 to 4.1 in) and have oblique to longitudinal nerves. The brown seeds inside have an oblong elliptic to orbicular shape with a length of 5 to 7 mm (0.20 to 0.28 in) and a conical aril.[1]