Acacia kingiana | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Genus: | Acacia |
Species: | A. kingiana |
Binomial name | |
Acacia kingiana Maiden & Blakely |
Acacia kingiana was a species of wattle that occurred in an area north east of Wagin in the Avon Wheatbelt region of south-west Western Australia. It has been declared extinct under the Australia's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, and Western Australia's Wildlife Conservation Act 1950.
The species was described by Joseph Maiden and William Blakely in 1928. They described the species as a bushy shrub between two and three meters tall, with 10 millimetre long and two millimetre wide phyllodes, and yellow flowers. It grew in gravelly soil.