Acacia racospermoides
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| Acacia racospermoides | |
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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. racospermoides |
| Binomial name | |
| Acacia racospermoides | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
Acacia racospermoides is a shrub or tree of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic to an area of northeastern Australia.
The shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of 2 to 6 m (6 ft 7 in to 19 ft 8 in) with a spindly or slender habit with white coloured bark and angular glabrous covered in a fine white powdery coating. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The thinly leathery and evergreen phyllodes have a narrowly oblong-elliptic shape and are shallowly to moderately sickle shaped with a length of 5 to 15 cm (2.0 to 5.9 in) in length and 1 to 2.5 cm (0.39 to 0.98 in) wide with three prominent main longitudinal nerves.[1]
Taxonomy
The species was first formally described as Acacia racospermoides by the botanist Leslie Pedley in 1990 as a part of the work New combinations in Acacia Miller (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) as published in the journal Austrobaileya. It was originally described in 1987 by Pedley as Racosperma paniculatum before being transferred to the Acacia genus.[2]