Acacia amyctica

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Fabales

Familia: Fabaceae
Subfamilia: Caesalpinioideae
Tribus: Acacieae
Genus: Acacia
Species: Acacia amyctica
Name

Acacia amyctica R.S.Cowan & Maslin
References

Nuytsia 10(2): 222 (1995).

Acacia amyctica is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves. It is native to an area in the south of the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia.[1]

Description

The erect bushy pungent shrub typically grows to a height of 0.7 to 1.5 metres (2 to 5 ft)[1] and has an obconic habit. It has smooth, light-grey coloured bark and slightly ribbed and sparsely haired branchlets. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The evergeen ascending to erect phyllodes have a narrowly oblanceolate to elliptic-oblanceolate shape and can be straight to slightly curved. The rigid and glabrous phyllodes have a length of 1.5 to 2.5 cm (0.59 to 0.98 in) and a width of 2.5 to 4 mm (0.098 to 0.157 in) with a pungent apex with many parallel and raised nerves.[2] It blooms from August to September and produces yellow flowers.[1]
Distribution

It has a limited distribution from around Salmon Gums and Grass Patch in the east and around Peak Charles National Park and around Dunn Swamp where it is found on flats and plains growing in sandy clay to loamy soils as a part of low woodland and open shrubland communities.[2]
See also

List of Acacia species

References

"Acacia amyctica". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
"Acacia amyctica". World Wide Wattle. Western Australian Herbarium. Retrieved 29 September 2020.