Acacia ommatosperma
| Acacia ommatosperma | |
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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. ommatosperma
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| Binomial name | |
| Acacia ommatosperma (Pedley) Pedley
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
Acacia ommatosperma is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic to an area of north western Australia.
Description
[edit]The shrub or small tree has weeping branches with glabrous angular branchlets. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The glabrous and leathery phyllodes have a narrowly oblong-oblanceolate shape and are incurved with a length of 9.5 to 12.5 cm (3.7 to 4.9 in) and a width of 7 to 14 mm (0.28 to 0.55 in) have three to five main nerves.[1] When it blooms it produces simple inflorescences that occur singly or in pairs in the axils with sperical flower-heads containing 25 to 30 yellow flowers. The thinly leathery and glabrous seed pods that form after flowering have a linear shape but are raised over and constricted between the seeds. The pods are up to 10 cm (3.9 in) in length and have a width of 6 to 8 mm (0.24 to 0.31 in) and contain dull dark brown seeds.[1]
Taxonomy
[edit]The species was first formally described by the botanist Leslie Pedley in 1987 as Racosperma ommatospermum. It was transferred to genus Acacia in 1990 as Acacia ommatosperma.[2]
Distribution
[edit]The shrub has a limited range in far north Queensland on the Cape York Peninsula around Weipa where it grows in gravelly ironstone soils.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Acacia ommatosperma". World Wide Wattle. Western Australian Herbarium. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
- ^ "Acacia ommatosperma (Pedley) Pedley". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 25 December 2020.