Английская Википедия:Acacia brachyclada

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Acacia brachyclada is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae.

Description

The dense and rounded to spreading resinous shrub typically grows to a height of Шаблон:Convert.[1] The green phyllodes have an obliquely ovate or oblong-elliptic shape and are Шаблон:Convert length and Шаблон:Convert wide.[2] It blooms from August to January and produces yellow flowers.[1] The simple inflorescences occur as single globular heads mostly containing 12 to 16 golden flowers. Glabrous seed podss form later that are tightly and irregularly coiled to a width of Шаблон:Convert. The seeds within have an oblong shape and are Шаблон:Convert long.[2]

Taxonomy

The species was first formally described by the botanist William Vincent Fitzgerald in 1912 as part of the work New West Australian Plants. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign. It was reclassified as Racosperma brachycladum by Leslie Pedley in 2003 before being returned to the genus Acacia in 2006.[3]

Distribution

It is native to an area in the Wheatbelt, Great Southern and the Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia. It is mostly found on gentle undulating plains and low lying areas where grows in clay, loam, sandy or calcareous soils.[1] It is usually associated with mallee scrub or woodland communities.[2]

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