Английская Википедия:Acacia cochlocarpa
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Acacia cochlocarpa is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae. It is native to Western Australia.[1]
The sprawling shrub typically grows to a height of Шаблон:Convert but reach a height of Шаблон:Convert and produces yellow flowers.[1] The branchlets are slightly flexuose with persistent stipules. It has erect, narrowly oblong-elliptic shaped and incurved phyllodes. The phyllodes are Шаблон:Convert in length with a width of Шаблон:Convert. There are two simple inflorescences per axil. The flower heads are subglobular to short-cylindrical with a length of Шаблон:Convert and a diameter of Шаблон:Convert. After flowering tightly spirally or irregularly coiled seed pods form containing glossy mottled round to oblong seeds that are Шаблон:Convert.[2]
It has a scattered distribution in the Wheatbelt of Western Australia where it grows in sandy, clay gravelly soils often around laterite.[1] Found in areas around Watheroo and Manmanning as a part of sandy heathland communities.[2]
There are two known subspecies:
- Acacia cochlocarpa Meisn. subsp. cochlocarpa[3]
- Acacia cochlocarpa subsp. velutinosa Maslin & A.R.Chapman[4]
A cochlocarpa is similar in appearance and closely related to Acacia lirellata and is also closely related to Acacia tetraneura.[2]
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