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Poverty bush is a low, spreading shrub with a flat top that grows to a height of 0.5 to 3 m (1 ft 8 in to 9 ft 10 in) and a width of around 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) and that branches near ground level and has dark grey to black coloured bark that is quite smooth. As
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instead of leaves. The thinly leathery dull grey-green phyllodes have a narrowly elliptic to elliptic shape and are curved and slightly sigmoid with a length of 0.6 to 2 cm (0.24 to 0.79 in) in length and with a width of 4 to 9 mm (0.16 to 0.35 in) with three more or less visible
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that are formed after flowering have a narrowly oblanceolate to oblanceolate shape with a length of 2 to 5.5 cm (0.79 to 2.17 in) and a width of 4 to 10 mm (0.16 to 0.39 in) with oblique nerves. The brown seeds inside have an oblong shape with a length of 3 to 6 mm (0.12 to
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296:Racosperma transluscens
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356:woodland communities.
286:William Jackson Hooker
211:Occurrence data from
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442:"Acacia translucens"
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847:Categories
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517:19 January
484:19 January
388:References
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366:scarified
348:sandstone
332:Kimberley
324:Australia
318:areas of
306:in 2006.
269:seed pods
258:phyllodes
239:Australia
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43:Kingdom:
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378:List of
372:See also
320:spinifex
276:Taxonomy
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119:Fabaceae
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235:endemic
229:, is a
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