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Acacia marramamba

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rather than true leaves. The asymmetric and evergreen leathery phyllodes are a pale milk green to blue-green colour and have a rounded upper margin and almost straight lower margin with a length of 2 to 5 cm (0.79 to 1.97 in) and a width of 9 to 23 mm (0.35 to 0.91 in). The
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The bushy spinescent shrub or tree typically grows to a height of 1.0 to 3.0 metres (3.3 to 9.8 ft). It has grey coloured bark that is mostly smooth but becomes fissured and fibrous near the base of the tree. It has
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and down to around Mount Fraser in the south. It does not form dense populations it is generally not uncommon throughout its range. It is usually a part of open woodland communities dominated by
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phyllodes have a main longitudinal nerve and form a needle-sharp point with a length of 1 to 3 mm (0.039 to 0.118 in) at the tip. It produces red and yellow flowers from May to July.
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Studies in the genus Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Acacia species of the Hamersley Range area, Western Australia
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where it is often situated on rocky hillslopes growing in gravelly and stony skeletal soils often over or around
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red-brown to light brown or orange coloured branchlets with vivid light green new shoots and shiny
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is derived from the area where it is found in the Pilbara in the Marra Mamba Iron Formation.
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to the north east it is also found in the Barlee Range and upper catchments of the
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that are 2 to 4 mm (0.079 to 0.157 in) in length. Like most species of
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or tall open shrubland communities where it is associated with
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The species was first formally described by the botanist
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Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions
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Scientific classification
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Plantae
Tracheophytes
Angiosperms
Eudicots
Rosids
Fabales
Fabaceae
Caesalpinioideae
Mimosoid clade
Acacia
Binomial name
Maslin

Acacia
endemic
Australia
glabrous
stipules
phyllodes
Bruce Maslin
Nuytsia
Leslie Pedley
specific epithet
Gascoyne
Pilbara
Goldfields
Western Australia
ironstone

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