Acacia benthamii

Add links
From English Wikipedia @ Freddythechick

Acacia benthamii

Priority Two — Poorly Known Taxa (DEC)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Acacia
Species:
A. benthamii
Binomial name
Acacia benthamii
Occurrence data from AVH

Acacia benthamii is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves. It is native to an area along the west coast in the Perth metropolitan region and Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.[1]

Description

The shrub typically grows to a height of 1 to 3 metres (3 to 10 ft).[1] It has ribbed glabrous branchlets with new shoots that are minutely woolly and with caducous stipules with a length of 1.5 to 2 mm (0.059 to 0.079 in). The pungent linear green phyllodes are attenuate at both ends and commonly inequilateral and have a length of 2 to 4.5 cm (0.79 to 1.77 in) and a width of 2 to 4 mm (0.079 to 0.157 in) with two or three main nerves per face.[2] It blooms from August to September and produces yellow flowers.[1] The spherical flower-heads have a diameter of 5 mm (0.20 in) and contain 27 to 35 golden flowers that are sharply inflexed.[2]

Taxonomy

The species was first formally described by the botanist Carl Meissner in 1844 in the Johann Georg Christian Lehmann work Plantae Preissianae.[3][4] It was reclassified as Racosperma benthamii by Leslie Pedley in 2003, but returned to the genus Acacia in 2006.[3] It is closely related to Acacia sessilis and closely resembles Acacia cochlearis.[2]

Etymology

The specific epithet, benthamii, honours George Bentham.[4][5]

Distribution

It is endemic to the west of Western Australia from around Dandaragan in the north[1] to around Subiaco in the south and is commonly found on limestone breakaways.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Acacia benthamii". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  2. ^ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Acacia benthamii Meisn". Wattle - Acacias of Australia. Department of the Environment and Energy. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  3. ^ 3.0 3.1 "Acacia benthamii Meisn". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  4. ^ 4.0 4.1 Meisner, C.D.F. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1844) Leguminosae. Plantae Preissianae 1(1): 11. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  5. ^ benthamii PlantIllustrations.org. Retrieved 27 July 2019

Error: "Q9562679" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.

Retrieved from "https://enwiki.freddythechick.net/index.php?title=Acacia_benthamii&oldid=10841566"