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Acacia orthocarpa

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March to April or June to July producing yellow flowers or sometimes as late as November and is thought to bloom at anytime following large scale rain events. The cylindrical flower-spikes have a length of 0.9 to 3.2 cm (0.35 to 1.26 in) and are loosely packed with yellow flowers. After flowering woody and erect
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rather than true leaves. The evergreen, coriaceous and glabrous phyllodesare straight to curved with a length of 2.5 to 15.5 cm (0.98 to 6.10 in) and a width of 0.5 to 1 mm (0.020 to 0.039 in) with two semi-prominent lateral nerves and the remainder inconspicuous. It flowers from
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The erect, spreading and spindly shrub or small tree typically grows to a height of 0.9 to 4 metres (3 to 13 ft) with a diffuse and often weeping habit but sometimes it can be bushy and low-spreading. It has dark grey to grey-brown coloured bark that can be smooth or flaky. The brown, slightly
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form that are usually linear to oblanceolate in shape and taper toward the base. The pods are straight sided or slightly biconvex with a length of 3 to 10 cm (1.2 to 3.9 in) and a width of 3 to 8 mm (0.12 to 0.31 in) with longitudinal nerves. The dark brown seeds inside are
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arranged longitudinally or slightly obliquely and have an oblong to elliptic shape with a length of 4 to 6 mm (0.16 to 0.24 in) with a narrowly conical
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areas where it is found on rocky hills, along rocky creeks and on sandy flats growing in skeletal sandy or loamy soils as a part of savannah woodland and open
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and the range of the plant extends eastward into the southern part of
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Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Botany
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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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shrubland communities usually with an understorey of
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in reference to the straight shape of the seed pods.
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Scientific classification
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Plantae
Tracheophytes
Angiosperms
Eudicots
Rosids
Fabales
Fabaceae
Caesalpinioideae
Mimosoid clade
Acacia
Binomial name
F.Muell.

AVH
Acacia
endemic
Australia
Nyangumarta
glabrous
lenticels
phyllodes
seed pods
aril
Ferdinand von Mueller
Leslie Pedley
specific epithet
Greek
Pilbara

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