Acacia aemula

Acacia aemula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Fabales
Family:Fabaceae
Clade:Mimosoideae
Genus:Acacia
Species: A. aemula
Binomial name
Acacia aemula

Acacia aemula is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and subgenus Alatae. It is native to an area along the south coast of Western Australia.[1][2]

Description

The shrub is prostrate to semi-prostrate, open branched and rush-like that typically grows to a height of 0.2 to 0.4 metres (0.66 to 1.3 ft). It produces white-cream flowers from May to June[1]

Taxonomy

The species was first formally described by the botanist Bruce Maslin in 1995 in the work Acacia Miscellany 13. Taxonomy of some Western Australian phyllocladinous and aphyllodinous taxa (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) as published in the journal Nuytsia. It was later reclassified as Racosperma aemulum by Leslie Pedley in 2003 then returned to the Acacia genus in 206.[2]

Two subspecies are recognized :

  • Acacia aemula subsp. aemula[3]
  • Acacia aemula subsp. muricata[4]

Distribution

It is found along the south coast of Western Australia in the Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance regions extending from around Albany east to Cape Arid National Park where it grows among granite outcrops and flats near creeks in sandy soils.[1]

See also

List of Acacia species

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Acacia aemula". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  2. 1 2 "Acacia aemula Maslin". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "Acacia aemula subsp. aemula". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  4. ↑ "Acacia aemula subsp. muricata". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
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