Acacia asparagoides

Acacia asparagoides

''Acacia asparagoides'' is a shrub belonging to the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Phyllodineae''. It is native to an area in south eastern New South Wales.
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Appearance

The shrub has an erect or spreading habit and typically to a height of 0.3 to 2 m . It has glabrous or finely haired branchlets that are more or less terete with stipules that are 1 to 2 mm . The green, rigid and clustered phyllodes sometimes clustered are straight and linear with a length of 0.8 to 1.5 cm and a width of 1 to 2 mm . It blooms mostly between August and October producing inflorescences that occur singly in axils and have spherical flower-heads with a diameter of 4 to 6 mm containing 15 to 30 bright yellow flowers. The flat, smooth, brittle and papery seed pods. The pods have a length of 1.5 to 5 cm and a width of 2.5 to 4 mm .

Distribution

The shrub is found between Newnes Junction and Lawson in the Blue Mountains where it grows in sandy soils over and around sandstone s a part of dry sclerophyll forest less frequently heath-land communities.

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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassEudicots
OrderFabales
FamilyFabaceae
GenusAcacia
SpeciesA. asparagoides
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