Acacia teretifolia

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 teretifolia
Name

Acacia teretifolia Benth.
References

London Journal of Botany. London 1:326. 1842
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Acacia teretifolia in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 09-Oct-10.

Acacia teretifolia is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae. It is native to an area in the Wheatbelt, South West and Peel regions of Western Australia.[1]

Description

The pungent sub-shrub is typically 0.2 to 0.5 m (7.9 in to 1 ft 7.7 in) in height with an open and erect habit[1] and has multiple glabrous stems with finely-ribbed flexuose branchlets that have spiny slender stipules that are 1.5 to 4 mm (0.059 to 0.157 in) long.[2] It has green to grey green, erect, cylindrical to occasionally flat phyllodes that are 8 to 27 mm (0.31 to 1.06 in) in length and 0.7 to 1.5 mm (0.028 to 0.059 in) wide with four to five obscure nerves.[2] It blooms between May and July[1] forming simple inflorescences form singly or in pairs and have spherical flower-heads that contain 23 to 30 bright light golden coloured flowers. The sub-woody, red-brown, cylindrical and shallowly curved seed pods that form later are narrowed at both ends and are up to 10 cm (3.9 in) in length and 3 to 3.5 mm (0.12 to 0.14 in) wide. The dull yellow-brown seeds inside have a narrowly oblong shape and are arranged longitudinally inside the pod.[2]
Taxonomy

The species was first formally described by the botanist George Bentham in 1842 as a part of the work Notes on Mimoseae, with a synopsis of species. as published in William Jackson Hooker's London Journal of Botany. The only synonym is Racosperma teretifolium as described by Leslie Pedley in 2003 before it was returned to genus Acacia in 2006.[3] The type specimen was collected by James Drummond from around the Swan River.[2]
Distribution

It has a discontinuous distribution from around Lesueur National Park in the north down to around Donnybrook in the south.[2] It is usually found growing in sandy to sandy-clay soils over granite or laterite.[1]
See also

List of Acacia species

References

"Acacia teretifolia". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
"Acacia teretifolia Benth". Wattle - Acacias of Australia. Lucid Central. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
"Acacia teretifolia Benth". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 17 January 2022.