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Acacia difficilis

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rather than true leaves. The evergreen, narrowly elliptic phyllodes have a tapered base and are 5.5 to 14 cm (2.2 to 5.5 in) in length and 15 to 40 mm (0.59 to 1.57 in) wide. The thinly coriaceous phyllodes are silvery-white and covered in a dense mat of woolly hair when young and
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The tree typically grows to a height of 3.5 to 13 metres (11 to 43 ft) and has fibrous, grey to brown coloured bark on both the trunk and branches. It has grey to brown branchlets that are almost terete which can be densely pubescent or
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in Queensland. It is usually situated along creeks growing in sandy or gravelly soils as a part of open woodland communities where it is often associated with
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have five to nine prominent longitudinal nerves. It blooms from May to September producing yellow flowers.
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Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions
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M.D. Tindale, P.G. Kodela & B.R. Maslin (2020).
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Scientific classification
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Plantae
Tracheophytes
Angiosperms
Eudicots
Rosids
Fabales
Fabaceae
Caesalpinioideae
Mimosoid clade
Acacia
Binomial name
Maiden

AVH
Acacia
endemic
glabrous
phyllodes
Kimberley
Western Australia
Northern Territory
Queensland
Thursday Island
Melville Island
Kununurra
Gulf of Carpentaria
Eucalyptus tetrodonta

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