''Acacia restiacea'' is a species of

Acacia ''Acacia'', commonly known as wattles or acacias, is a genus of about of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa, South America, and Austral ...

belonging to the sub genus ''Alatae'' which is native to

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Description

It is a small, leafless shrub that typically grows to a height of . The shrub resembles rushes but can have an erect or sprawling habit. It is usually multi-stemmed, the green glaucous stems are terete and finely striate. The

bipinnate The following terms are used to describe leaf morphology in the description and taxonomy of plants. Leaves may be simple (that is, the leaf blade or 'lamina' is undivided) or compound (that is, the leaf blade is divided into two or more leaflets ...

foliage is sometimes present toward the base of the stems.

Phyllode Phyllodes are modified petiole (botany), petioles or leaf stems, which are leaf-like in appearance and function. In some plants, these become flattened and widened, while the leaf itself becomes reduced or vanishes altogether. Thus the phyllode co ...

s are rarely present and resemble the stems, pentagonal-terete in section. The phyllodes are in length and wide. It flowers from late winter to late spring between August and November producing yellow flowers.

Taxonomy

The species was first formally described by the botanist

George Bentham George Bentham (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884) was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century". Born into a distinguished family, he initially studie ...

in 1842 as part of the

William Jackson Hooker Sir William Jackson Hooker (6 July 178512 August 1865) was an English botany, botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew Gardens, Kew when in 1841 it was recommended to be placed under state ownership as a botan ...

work ''Notes on Mimoseae, with a synopsis of species'' published in the ''London Journal of Botany''. It was reclassified in 2003 by

Leslie Pedley Leslie Pedley (19 May 1930 – 27 November 2018)IPNILeslie Pedley/ref> was an Australian botanist who specialised in the genus ''Acacia''. He is notable for bringing into use the generic name ''Racosperma'', creating a split in the genus, which r ...

as ''Racosperma restiaceum'' and then transferred back to the genus ''Acacia'' in 2006.

Distribution

It is found from the Mid West, extending through the Wheatbelt and into the Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia. It is found as far north as

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to coastal suburbs of

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in the south and out to Westonia in the east. Isolated populations are also found near Tambellup and

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. The plant is found in a variety of habitats growing in rocky or gravelly loam soils over or around

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2709143 restiacea Acacias of Western Australia Fabales of Australia Plants described in 1842 Taxa named by George Bentham

Description

Taxonomy

Distribution

See also

References