Acacia carens is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia. It is native to a small area on the Lesueur sandplain on the coast at the meeting of the Mid West and Wheatbelt regions of Western Australia.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Caesalpinioideae |
| Clade: | Mimosoid clade |
| Genus: | Acacia |
| Species: | A. carens
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| Acacia carens | |
Description
editThe shrub typically grows to a height of 0.35 to 1 metre (1.1 to 3.3 ft) and has an open broom-like habit.[1] It has glabrous, striated, terete green branchlets that have prominent yellow ribbing with narrowly triangular stipules that are 1.5 to 3 mm (0.059 to 0.118 in) in length. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The few evergreen phyllodes are distantly spaced and continuous with the branches. They are rudimentary and minute with a length of 0.5 to 1 mm (0.020 to 0.039 in).[2] It blooms between April and June producing yellow flowers.[1]
Taxonomy
editThe species was first formally described by the botanist Bruce Maslin in 1995 as part of the work Acacia Miscellany Taxonomy of some Western Australian phyllocladinous and aphyllodinous taxa (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). as published in the journal Nuytsia. The species as reclassified as Racosperma carens in 2003 by Leslie Pedley but returned to the genus Acacia in 2006.[3]
Distribution
editThe species is found in a small area between Coorow and Dandaragan where it grows it sandy gravelly soils on lateritic hills[1] as part of heathland communities.[2]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d "Acacia carens". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
- ^ a b "Acacia carens". WorldWideWattle. Western Australian Herbarium. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ "Acacia carens Maslin". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 8 November 2018.