Acacia crenulata is a shrub or tree of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic to a small area of south western Australia.
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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. crenulata
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| Acacia crenulata | |
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Description
editThe bushy shrub or tree typically grows to a height of 0.7 to 3 metres (2 to 10 ft)[1] and can have a rounded or obconic habit. It has glabrous branchlets with crenulate-resinous ribbing. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The glabrous, leathery and evergreen phyllodes have a narrowly elliptic to linear-elliptic shape with a length of 2 to 6 cm (0.79 to 2.36 in) and a width of 2 to 6 mm (0.079 to 0.236 in) with yellowish and resinous margins and a prominent central nerve with many indistinct closely parallel secondary nerves.[2] It produces yellow flowers.[1]
Distribution
editIt is native to an area in the Goldfields-Esperance and the Wheatbelt regions of Western Australia where it is commonly situated on breakaways, among granite outcrops and on rocky rises growing in sandy or clay soils.[1] It is found in the Chiddarcooping Rock and Walyahmoning Rock areas near Bullabulling as a part of low Eucalyptus wandoo woodland communities and is often associated with other species of Acacia, Allocasuarina campestris and Melaleuca uncinata.[2]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Acacia crenulata". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
- ^ a b "Acacia crenulata Maslin". Wattle - Acacias of Australia. Lucid Central. Retrieved 31 October 2020.