Английская Википедия:Acacia splendens

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Acacia splendens is a tree or shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae that is endemic to a small area of western Australia.

Description

The tree or shrub typically grows to a height of Шаблон:Convert[1] and has an open habit. It has thick, glabrous branchlets that are angled at the extremities and covered in a fine white powdery coating. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The glabrous phyllodes are found at the end of obvious stem-projections forming narrow wings that are Шаблон:Cvt in length and Шаблон:Cvt wide and have one nerve per face and finely penninerved.[2] It blooms in May and produces yellow flowers.[1] The inflorescences are found on a raceme that is Шаблон:Cvt in length. The spherical to obloid shaped flower-heads contain 33 to 75 golden coloured flowers. Following flowering glabrous, firmly chartaceous, narrowly oblong seed pods form that are up to Шаблон:Cvt in length and Шаблон:Cvt wide and are covered in a fine white powdery coating. The shiny black seeds inside the pods have an oblong to elliptic shape with a length of Шаблон:Cvt with a dark red-brown club shaped aril.[2]

Taxonomy

The species was first formally described by the botanists Bruce Maslin and Carole Elliott in 2006 as a part of the work Acacia splendens (Leguminosae : Mimosoideae), a new rare species from near Dandaragan, Western Australia as published in the journal Nuytsia.[3]

Distribution

It is native to a small area in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia[1] all found in a single population to the north west of Dandaragan growing gravelly loam soils among laterite breakaways as a part of low Eucalyptus woodland communities.[2]

See also

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