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Acacia ophiolithica

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rather than true leaves, The slender, straight, glabrous and evergreen phyllodes are ascending to erect but are quite congested. The phyllodes are 1.5 to 4.5 cm (0.59 to 1.77 in) in length and have a diameter of 0.7 to 1 mm (0.028 to 0.039 in) and have four to eight indistinct
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where it is commonly situated along river banks and in rocky areas growing in loamy or clay-loam soils. The plant has a limited range but is common in the area it is found around the
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Acacia Miscellany. Five groups of microneurous species of Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae: section Plurinerves), mostly from Western Australia
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branchlets that are scarred with raised stem-projections for fallen phyllodes. Like most species of
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The dense rounded shrub typically grows to a height of 0.3 to 2 metres (1 to 7 ft) and has
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nerves. It blooms from August to October and produces yellow flowers.
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The species was first formally described by the botanists
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It is native to an area along the south coast of the
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It was reclassified as 212: 203: 182: 175: 32:Scientific classification 30: 23: 732:Plants described in 1995 294:Racosperma ophiolithicum 227:is a shrub of the genus 455:R.S.Cowan & Maslin" 422:R.S.Cowan & Maslin" 213:Occurrence data from 326:Goldfields-Esperance 276:Richard Sumner Cowan 168:A. ophiolithica 590:Acacia ophiolithica 524:Acacia ophiolithica 494:Acacia ophiolithica 453:Acacia ophiolithica 420:Acacia ophiolithica 387:Acacia ophiolithica 224:Acacia ophiolithica 186:Acacia ophiolithica 25:Acacia ophiolithica 704: 703: 637:Open Tree of Life 486:Taxon identifiers 334:Jerdacuttup River 330:Western Australia 233:and the subgenus 220: 219: 16:Species of legume 744: 697: 696: 684: 683: 671: 670: 658: 657: 645: 644: 632: 631: 619: 618: 606: 605: 593: 592: 580: 579: 567: 566: 554: 553: 541: 540: 528: 527: 526: 513: 512: 511: 481: 474: 473: 471: 469: 447: 438: 437: 435: 433: 414: 403: 402: 381: 313:Acacia uncinella 208: 188: 131:Caesalpinioideae 40: 39: 21: 752: 751: 747: 746: 745: 743: 742: 741: 707: 706: 705: 700: 692: 687: 679: 674: 666: 661: 653: 648: 640: 635: 627: 622: 614: 609: 601: 596: 588: 583: 575: 570: 562: 557: 549: 544: 536: 531: 522: 521: 516: 507: 506: 501: 488: 478: 477: 467: 465: 449: 448: 441: 431: 429: 428:. 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Index

Scientific classification
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Plantae
Tracheophytes
Angiosperms
Eudicots
Rosids
Fabales
Fabaceae
Caesalpinioideae
Mimosoid clade
Acacia
Binomial name
R.S.Cowan
Maslin

AVH
Acacia
endemic
Australia
glabrous
phyllodes
Richard Sumner Cowan
Bruce Maslin
Nuytsia
Leslie Pedley
Acacia fragilis
Acacia uncinella
Goldfields-Esperance
Western Australia

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