Acacia neobrachycarpa is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae endemic to Queensland.
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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. neobrachycarpa
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| Acacia neobrachycarpa I.M.Turner (2014)
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| Acacia brachycarpa occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium[1] | |
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The shrub has a mompact and much-branched habit that typically grows to a height of less than 2 m (6 ft 7 in). The sparsely to moderately hirsutellous branchlets have 1 mm (0.039 in) long stipules. The pungent, rigid, flat, linear to linear-triangular shaped phyllodes have a midrib on each face . The phyllodes have a length of 9 to 15 mm (0.35 to 0.59 in) and a width of around 1 mm (0.039 in).[3] The simple inflorescences occur singly per axil. The small spherical flower-heads contain 8 to 18 bright lemon yellow flowers. The blackish glabrous seed pods that form after flowering have a length of 8 to 20 mm (0.31 to 0.79 in) and a width of 3 to 4 mm (0.12 to 0.16 in) and contain one to three oblong seeds.[3]
The species was first formally described by the botanist Leslie Pedley in 1969 as part of the work Notes on Acacia, chiefly from Queensland as published in Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium. It was reclassified as Racosperma brachycarpum by Pedley in 1987 then transferred back into the genus Acacia in 2001.[4] It was renamed Acacia neobrachycarpa in 2014 by I. M. Turner.[2]
The shrub has a disjunct distribution in south eastern Queensland between Stanthorpe in the south extending north as far as Blackdown Tableland National Park where it is found on rocky sandy sandstone soils as a part of open Eucalyptus woodland communities.[3]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "DOI Details". doi.ala.org.au. doi:10.26197/5c0b1388984eb. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
- ^ a b Acacia neobrachycarpa I.M.Turner. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
- ^ a b c "Acacia brachycarpa". World Wide Wattle. Western Australian Herbarium. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
- ^ "Acacia brachycarpa Pedley". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 1 April 2019.