Acacia verricula
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| Acacia verricula | |
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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. verricula |
| Binomial name | |
| Acacia verricula | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
Acacia kalgoorliensis is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic to an area of south western Australia.
The shrub typically grows to a height of 0.5 to 3 m (1 ft 8 in to 9 ft 10 in) and has a spreading habit with hairy resinous branchlets. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The glabrous to sparsely hairy and thin leathery phyllodes have an inequilateral, narrow to linear-elliptic to oblanceolate shape and are straight to shallowly curved and have two or three main nerves that are sometimes evident. The inflorescences occur on one to two headed racemes with a length if 1 to 6 mm (0.039 to 0.236 in) and have spherical flower-heads with a diameter of 4 to 5 mm (0.16 to 0.20 in) and containing 25 to 35 golden coloured flowers. The glabrous, resinous and glossy seed pods that form after flowering are mostly undulate and bow-shaped with a length of up to 5 cm (2.0 in) and a width of 2 to 4 mm (0.079 to 0.157 in) with longitudinally arranged seeds inside. The glossy brown seeds have an elliptic shape with a length of 3 to 3.5 mm (0.12 to 0.14 in).[1]