Acacia subflexuosa
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| Acacia subflexuosa | |
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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. subflexuosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Acacia subflexuosa | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
Acacia subflexuosa is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic to an area of south western Australia.
The dense shrub typically grows to a height of 0.25 to 1 metre (1 to 3 ft)[1] with a rounded habit and nerveless, hairy and cylindrical branchlets that have persistent stipules with a length of 1 to 2 mm (0.039 to 0.079 in). Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The widely spreading phyllodes have an irregular thread-like shape and are strongly to shallowly with a length of 3.5 to 7 cm (1.4 to 2.8 in) and a width of 1 to 2 mm (0.039 to 0.079 in) and have eight strongly raised nerves.[2] It blooms from August to September and produces yellow flowers.[1] The simple inflorescences occur singly or in pairs in the axils and have spherical flower-heads with a diameter of 3.5 to 4 mm (0.14 to 0.16 in) containing 15 to 22 golden coloured flowers. The firmly chartaceous seed pods that form after flowering are linear to curved and resembling a string of beads and contain dull brown seeds that are sometimes mottled with a broadly elliptic shape that are about 2.5 mm (0.098 in) in length with a crested aril.[2]
Taxonomy
There are two recognised subspecies:
- Acacia subflexuosa subsp. capillata
- Acacia subflexuosa subsp. subflexuosa