Acacia duriuscula

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 duriuscula
Name

Acacia duriuscula W.Fitzg.
References

Journ. W. Austral. Nat. Hist. Soc. i. 15.

Acacia duriuscula is a shrub or tree of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic to an area of south western Australia.

Description

The erect resinous shrub or tree typically grows to a height of 0.7 to 3 metres (2 to 10 ft)[1] and has glabrous branchlets. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The evergreen, ascending to erect phyllodes that have a linear to linear-elliptic shape and are straight to shallowly incurved. The leathery, glabrous phyllodes have a length of 1.5 to 9.5 cm (0.59 to 3.74 in) and a width of 1 to 4 mm (0.039 to 0.157 in) and have many closely parallel nerves with a midrib that is a little more obvious.[2] It blooms from July to October and produces yellow flowers.[1]
Description

It is native to an area in the Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia where it is commonly situated among granite outcrops and on plains growing in sandy or sandy loamy granitic soils.[1] It has a scattered distribution from around Mullewa and Paynes Find in the north to around Tammin, Cardunia Rocks and Bromus in the south as a part of scrubland communities usually dominated by various species of Eucalyptus, Acacia or Allocasuarina acutivalvis.[2]
See also

List of Acacia species

References

"Acacia duriuscula". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
"Acacia duriuscula". World Wide Wattle. Western Australian Herbarium. Retrieved 14 November 2020.