Acacia coolgardiensis
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Acacia coolgardiensis, commonly known as sugar brother or spinifex wattle, is a shrub in the family Fabaceae. Endemic to Western Australia, it is widely distributed in the semi-arid spinifex country from Carnarvon to Kalgoorlie.
Sugar brother grows to a height of about three metres. It nearly always has multiple stems. Like most Acacia species, it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. These are green, and may be up to 10 centimetres long and about three millimetres wide. The flowers are yellow, and held in cylindrical clusters up to two centimetres long and five millimetres wide. The pods are papery, about three millimetres wide.
There are three recognised subspecies:
- A. coolgardiensis subsp. coolgardiensis
- A. coolgardiensis subsp. effusa
- A. coolgardiensis subsp. latior
[edit] References
Wikispecies has information related to:
- Acacia coolgardiensis. Flora of Australia Online. Department of the Environment and Heritage, Australian Government.
- Acacia coolgardiensis. FloraBase. Department of Environment and Conservation, Government of Western Australia.
- Mitchell, A. A. and Wilcox, D. G. (1994). Arid Shrubland Plants of Western Australia, Second and Enlarged Edition. University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, Western Australia. ISBN 1-875560-22-X.
