Acacia triptycha

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 triptycha
Name

Acacia triptycha F.Muell. ex Benth., 1864
Synonyms

Racosperma triptychum (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Pedley

Distribution
Native distribution areas:
Acacia triptycha

Continental: Australasia
Regional: Australia
Western Australia

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Primary references

Bentham, G. & Mueller, F.J.H. v. 1864. Flora Australiensis, Volume 2. London, L. Reeve & co. 475 pp. BHL Reference page. : 2: 337.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Acacia triptycha in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Aug 16. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Acacia triptycha. Published online. Accessed: Aug 16 2019.
Tropicos.org 2019. Acacia triptycha. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Aug 16.
Catalogue of Life: 2020 Annual Checklist
Acacia triptycha – Taxon details on World Wide Wattle.

Vernacular names

Acacia triptycha 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 bushy shrub or tree typically grows to a height of 0.6 to 4 metres (2 to 13 ft)[1] and has glabrous branchlets with hairy golden coloured new growth. Like most species it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The ascending to erect, glabrous and evergreen phyllodes have a linear threadlike shape and are straight or usually slightly curved with a length of 3 to 13 cm (1.2 to 5.1 in) and a width of 1 to 2 mm (0.039 to 0.079 in) and have eight nerves in total.[2] It blooms from June to January and produces yellow flowers.[1]
Taxonomy

The species was first formally described by the botanist George Bentham in 1864 as a part of the work Flora Australiensis. It was reclassified by Leslie Pedley in 2003 as Racosperma triptychum then transferred back to genus Acacia in 2006.[3]
Distribution

It is native to an area along the south coast in the South West, Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia where it is commonly situated among granite outcrops and on hills and rises growing in gravelly clay or sand or sandy soils with laterite or quartzite or granite.[1] The range of the plant extends from around Busselton in the west then scattered along the south coast with the bulk of the population found between Mount Frankland out to Cape Arid National Park in the east.[2]
See also

List of Acacia species

References

"Acacia triptycha". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
"Acacia triptycha F.Muell. ex Benth". Wattle - Acacias of Australia. Lucid Central. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
"Acacia triptycha F.Muell. ex Benth". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 20 January 2021.