Acacia verricula

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 verricula
Name

Acacia verricula R.S.Cowan & Maslin, 1990
Synonyms

Racosperma verriculum (R.S.Cowan & Maslin) Pedley
Acacia glutinosa F.Muell. (1863)

Distribution
Native distribution areas:
References
Primary references

Cowan, R.S. & Maslin, 1990. Nuytsia; Bulletin of the Western Australian Herbarium. South Perth, W.A. 7(2): 197..

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Acacia verricula in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Aug 17. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Acacia verricula. Published online. Accessed: Aug 17 2019.
Tropicos.org 2019. Acacia verricula. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 17 Aug 2019.
Catalogue of Life: 2021 Annual Checklist
Acacia verricula – Taxon details on World Wide Wattle.

Vernacular names

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

Description

The shrub typically grows to a height of 0.5 to 3 m (1 ft 8 in to 9 ft 10 in) and has a spreading habit with hairy resinous branchlets. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The glabrous to sparsely hairy and thin leathery phyllodes have an inequilateral, narrow to linear-elliptic to oblanceolate shape and are straight to shallowly curved and have two or three main nerves that are sometimes evident. The inflorescences occur on one to two headed racemes with a length if 1 to 6 mm (0.039 to 0.236 in) and have spherical flower-heads with a diameter of 4 to 5 mm (0.16 to 0.20 in) and containing 25 to 35 golden coloured flowers. The glabrous, resinous and glossy seed pods that form after flowering are mostly undulate and bow-shaped with a length of up to 5 cm (2.0 in) and a width of 2 to 4 mm (0.079 to 0.157 in) with longitudinally arranged seeds inside. The glossy brown seeds have an elliptic shape with a length of 3 to 3.5 mm (0.12 to 0.14 in).[1]
Distribution

It has a scattered distribution along the south coast and island areas of Western Australia in the southern Wheatbelt, Great Southern and southern Goldfields-Esperance regions. The range of the species is from around Trayning and Chiddarcooping Hill in the north to the Fitzgerald River National Park in the south and as far east as Buningonia Spring and Sparkle Hill in the east with outlying specimens have been found as far east as Madura where it is found growing in loamy or sandy or clay soils that can be quite gravelly.[1]
See also

List of Acacia species

References

"Acacia verricula". World Wide Wattle. Western Australian Herbarium. Retrieved 23 January 2021.