Английская Википедия:Acacia benthamii
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Acacia benthamii is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves. It is native to an area along the west coast in the Perth metropolitan region and Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.[1]
Description
The shrub typically grows to a height of Шаблон:Convert.[1] It has ribbed glabrous branchlets with new shoots that are minutely woolly and with caducous stipules with a length of Шаблон:Cvt. The pungent linear green phyllodes are attenuate at both ends and commonly inequilateral and have a length of Шаблон:Cvt and a width of Шаблон:Cvt with two or three main nerves per face.[2] It blooms from August to September and produces yellow flowers.[1] The spherical flower-heads have a diameter of Шаблон:Cvt and contain 27 to 35 golden flowers that are sharply inflexed.[2]
Taxonomy
The species was first formally described by the botanist Carl Meissner in 1844 in the Johann Georg Christian Lehmann work Plantae Preissianae.[3][4] It was reclassified as Racosperma benthamii by Leslie Pedley in 2003, but returned to the genus Acacia in 2006.[3] It is closely related to Acacia sessilis and closely resembles Acacia cochlearis.[2]
Etymology
The specific epithet, benthamii, honours George Bentham.[4][5]
Distribution
It is endemic to the west of Western Australia from around Dandaragan in the north[1] to around Subiaco in the south and is commonly found on limestone breakaways.[2]
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