Acacia andrewsii explained

Acacia andrewsii is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is intricately-branched shrub with narrowly oblong to lance-shaped, sometimes linear phyllodes, spherical heads of 20 to 30 golden-yellow flowers, and leathery pods up to long.

Description

Acacia andrewsii is a spreading, intricately-branched shrub that typically grows up to high, its branchlets more or less glabrous. Its phyllodes are narrowly oblong to lance-shaped or sometimes linear, usually long and wide and more or less sessile. The phyllodes are sharply pointed and usually green and glabrous with a prominent mid-vein. There are spiny stipules long at the base of the phyllodes. The flowers are borne in a spherical head in axils on a peduncle long, each head with 20 to 30 golden-yellow flowers. Flowering occurs from about June to October, and the fruit is a thickly leathery to more or less woody pod up to long and wide. The seeds are oblong to elliptic, long with a cone-shaped aril.[1] [2]

Taxonomy

Acacia andrewsii was first formally described in 1904 by the botanist William Vincent Fitzgerald in the Journal of the West Australian Natural History Society from specimens collected in 1903.[3] [4] The specific epithet (andrewsii) honours Cecil Rollo Payton Andrews who bought the species to the attention of Fitzgerald.

Distribution

This species of Acacia often grows in low lateritic or limestone hills and granite outcrops in a variety of soil types in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Mallee, Murchison and Yalgoo bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Maslin . Bruce R. . Kodela . Phillip G. . Acacia andrewsii . Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. . 20 August 2024.
  2. Web site: Acacia andrewsii . World Wide Wattle . 20 August 2024.
  3. Web site: Acacia andrewsii . Australian Plant Name Index . 20 August 2024.
  4. Fitzgerald . William V. . Additions to the West Australian Flora. . Journal of the West Australian Natural History Society . 1904 . 2 . 1 . 6 . 20 August 2024.