Acacia cochlocarpa

Acacia cochlocarpa is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae. It is native to Western Australia.[1]

Acacia cochlocarpa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Clade: Mimosoideae
Genus: Acacia
Species:
A. cochlocarpa
Binomial name
Acacia cochlocarpa
Occurrence data from AVH

The sprawling shrub typically grows to a height of 0.3 to 0.7 metres (1.0 to 2.3 ft) but reach a height of 1.5 metres (5 ft) and produces yellow flowers.[1] The branchlets are slightly flexuose with persistent stipules. It has erect, narrowly oblong-elliptic shaped and incurved phyllodes. The phyllodes are 2.5 to 7.5 centimetres (1.0 to 3.0 in) in length with a width of 3 to 6 millimetres (0.12 to 0.24 in). There are two simple inflorescences per axil. The flower heads are subglobular to short-cylindrical with a length of 5 to 10 mm (0.20 to 0.39 in) and a diameter of 5 to 6 mm (0.20 to 0.24 in). After flowering tightly spirally or irregularly coiled seed pods form containing glossy mottled round to oblong seeds that are 1.5 to 2.5 mm (0.06 to 0.10 in).[2]

It has a scattered distribution in the Wheatbelt of Western Australia where it grows in sandy, clay gravelly soils often around laterite.[1] Found in areas around Watheroo and Manmanning as a part of sandy heathland communities.[2]

There are two known subspecies:

  • Acacia cochlocarpa Meisn. subsp. cochlocarpa[3]
  • Acacia cochlocarpa subsp. velutinosa Maslin & A.R.Chapman[4]

A cochlocarpa is similar in appearance and closely related to Acacia lirellata and is also closely related to Acacia tetraneura.[2]

See also

References
  1. "Acacia cochlocarpa". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  2. "Acacia cochlocarpa". World Wide Wattle. Western Australian Herbarium. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  3. "Acacia cochlocarpa Meisn. subsp. cochlocarpa". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  4. "Acacia cochlocarpa Meisn. subsp. velutinosa". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
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