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| + | ''Acacia kalgoorliensis'' also known as '''Kalgoorlie Wattle''' native to Western Australia it has dense, rounded multistemmed shrub 1–3 m high. Branchlets subappressed puberulous, the hairs white with red resin-hairlets intermixed. Phyllodes erect, straight, terete, 3–7 cm long, 1.5 mm diam., tapering into long, hard, dark, straight, sharply pungent tip, rigid, glabrous except pulvinus crispate-sericeous, with numerous slightly raised, closely parallel nerves; stomata evident between the nerves; glands normally 2. Inflorescences simple, 2 per axil; peduncles usually 0.5–1.5 mm long, glabrous or with scattered red resin-hairlets; heads globular to widely ellipsoid, 3–6 mm diam., 15–22-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. '''Pods linear''', raised over and constricted between seeds, shallowly curved, to 7.5 cm long, 3 mm wide, chartaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, narrowly elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 4-4.5 mm long, dull, dark brown; aril terminal. | ||
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General Plant Info
Acacia kalgoorliensis also known as Kalgoorlie Wattle native to Western Australia it has dense, rounded multistemmed shrub 1–3 m high. Branchlets subappressed puberulous, the hairs white with red resin-hairlets intermixed. Phyllodes erect, straight, terete, 3–7 cm long, 1.5 mm diam., tapering into long, hard, dark, straight, sharply pungent tip, rigid, glabrous except pulvinus crispate-sericeous, with numerous slightly raised, closely parallel nerves; stomata evident between the nerves; glands normally 2. Inflorescences simple, 2 per axil; peduncles usually 0.5–1.5 mm long, glabrous or with scattered red resin-hairlets; heads globular to widely ellipsoid, 3–6 mm diam., 15–22-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods linear, raised over and constricted between seeds, shallowly curved, to 7.5 cm long, 3 mm wide, chartaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, narrowly elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 4-4.5 mm long, dull, dark brown; aril terminal.
