Acacia spongolitica
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| Acacia spongolitica | |
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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. spongolitica |
| Binomial name | |
| Acacia spongolitica | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
Acacia spongolitica is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic to south western Australia.
The spreading, aromatic and resinous shrub typically grows to a height of 1 to 3 metres (3 to 10 ft) and a width of 1.5 to 4 metres (5 to 13 ft). It blooms from July to September and produces yellow flowers.[1] It has resinous, glabrous and apically angled branchlets . Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The glabrous, leathery and evergreen phyllodes have a linear to oblong-elliptic shape with a length of 3 to 7 cm (1.2 to 2.8 in) and a width of 4 to 7 mm (0.16 to 0.28 in) with one or two main nerves and several parallel and less prominent secondary nerves.[2]
Taxonomy
The species was first formally described by the botanists Richard Sumner Cowan and Bruce Maslin in 1990 as a part of the work Acacia Miscellany. Some oligoneurous species of Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae: Section Plurinerves) from Western Australia as published in the journal Nuytsia. It was reclassified in 2003 by Leslie Pedley as Racosperma spongoliticum then transferred back to genus Acacia in 2006.[3] It belongs to the Acacia flavipila group of wattle and is thought to be most closely related to Acacia lanei, Acacia ixiophylla and Acacia veronica also closely resembles Acacia pelophila.[2]