Acacia glaucoptera
species of plant
Acacia glaucoptera, commonly known as clay wattle, flat wattle or claybush wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate, sprawling or erect shrub with glabrous, straight branchlets, winged, leathery phyllodes continuous with the branchlets, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and coiled and twisted, thinly crust-like black pods.
Description
Acacia glaucoptera is a prostrate or semi-prostrate, sprawling to erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.3–1.5 m (1 ft 0 in – 4 ft 11 in) and often has somewhat gangling branches. The branchlets are glabrous and straight to slightly winding. The phyllodes are continuous with the branchlets, forming wings on alternate sides, each wing extending to the one below, usually 25–70 mm (0.98–2.76 in) long and 6–20 mm (0.24–0.79 in) wide, the free part of the phyllode usually 10–40 mm (0.39–1.57 in) long. The flowers are borne in a spherical head in leaf axils on a peduncle 3–18 mm (0.12–0.71 in) long, the heads 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) in diameter with 30 to 80 golden yellow flowers. Flowering mainly occurs between August and December with the main flush between August and October. The pods are irregularly coiled and twisted, up to 20 mm (0.79 in) long and 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) wide, thinly crusty, black and glabrous. The seeds are more or less oblong, 2.5–3.5 mm (0.098–0.138 in) long with a conical aril on the end.
Taxonomy
Acacia glaucoptera was first formally described in 1855 by the botanist George Bentham in Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde.
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