Acacia subcontorta
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| Acacia subcontorta | |
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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. subcontorta |
| Binomial name | |
| Acacia subcontorta | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
Acacia subcontorta is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae that is endemic to central and central western Australia.
The shrub or trees usually has multiple stems and typically grows to a height of 1 to 8 m (3 ft 3 in to 26 ft 3 in) with a rounded and spreading crown that is 1 to 5 m (3 ft 3 in to 16 ft 5 in) across and becomes sparser with age. The trunks appear contorted and have a diameter of around 10 to 15 cm (3.9 to 5.9 in) at breast height and with the contorted looking main branches spreading more or less horizontally. The thin grey coloured bark has a fibrous texture and is longitudinally fissured along the main branches and trunks. The terete and glabrous branchlets have obscure ribbing and are a light brown colour at the extremities. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The evergreen, moderately coriaceous to sub-rigid phyllodes have a linear to narrowly elliptic shape with a length of 6 to 11 cm (2.4 to 4.3 in) and a width of 2 to 8 mm (0.079 to 0.315 in) with many fine parallel longitudinal nerves.[1]