Acacia sericata
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| Acacia sericata | |
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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. sericata |
| Binomial name | |
| Acacia sericata | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
Acacia sericata is a shrub or tree of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic across northern Australia.
The dense shrub or tree typically grows to a height of 2.5 to 7 metres (8 to 23 ft)[1] but can reach up to 10 m (33 ft)[2] and has rough and fissured bark[1] and has hairy branchlets. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The thinly leathery evergreen phyllodes have an inequilaterally ovate or elliptic sickle shape with a length of 8 to 15 cm (3.1 to 5.9 in) and a width of 2 to 6 cm (0.79 to 2.36 in) and have three to four distant main nerves. The inflorescences have spherical flower-heads with a diameter of about 5 mm (0.20 in) and contain 30 white coloured flowers. The flat, glabrous and woody seed pods that form after flowering are up to 14 cm (5.5 in) in length and 2.2 to 3.5 cm (0.87 to 1.38 in) wide and have narrow wings. The dull brown seeds inside have a black periphery and length of 9 to 10 mm (0.35 to 0.39 in) with a large aril.[2]
Taxonomy
The species was first formally described by the botanist Allan Cunningham in 1842 as part of George Bentham and William Jackson Hooker's work Notes on Mimoseae, with a synopsis of species published in the London Journal of Botany. It was reclassified as Racosperma sericatum by Leslie Pedley in 2003 then transferred back to genus Acacia in 2006.[3]