Acacia sabulosa

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 sabulosa
Name

Acacia sabulosa Maslin
References

Nuytsia 12(3): 393 (1999).

Acacia sabulosa is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae that is endemic to north western Australia.

Description

The bushy resinous shrub typically grows to a height of 1 to 5 metres (3 to 16 ft). The glabrous and spreading shrub has a "V" shape and a crown that is around 3 m (9.8 ft) across. It forms many stems at or near the base with additional branches forming about 1 m (3 ft 3 in) from the base. It has smooth dark grey coloured bark that becomes fissured at the base with age. The slender, yellow to light brown coloured branchelt have bright green new shoots. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The soft, flexible, thin, dull green and sometimes scurfy phyllodes have a linear shape with a length of 4 to 10 cm (1.6 to 3.9 in) and a width of 1 to 3.5 mm (0.039 to 0.138 in).[1] It blooms from May to July and produces yellow flowers.[2]
Distribution

It is native to an area in the Northern Territory and the Goldfields-Esperance and Pilbara regions of Western Australia. It usually grows in sand dunes around the Eremaean Province and Northern Province with very arid landscapes and red brown coloured sandy soils.[2] The shrub has a discontinuous distribution within the Pilbara region from coastal areas between Port Hedland and Cossack in the west to Marble Bar and Shay Gap, Western Australia. It also occurs furthern north from around Mandora extending eastward to the Great Sandy Desert and the Little Sandy Desert. It also located in the Northern Territory in the Tanami Desert where it is often a part of spinifex communities.[1]
See also

List of Acacia species

References

"Acacia sabulosa". Wattles of the Pilbara. Department of Environment and Conservation. 2010. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
"Acacia sabulosa". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.