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Peak Charles wattle
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Caesalpinioideae
Clade:	Mimosoid clade
Genus:	Acacia
Species:	A. incongesta
Binomial name
*Acacia incongesta* R.S.Cowan & Maslin

Acacia incongesta, also known as Peak Charles wattle,^[1] is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae that is endemic to a small area in south western Australia

Description

The shrub is dense and rounded typically growing to a height of 0.6 to 4 metres (2 to 13 ft) ^[2] and has glabrous branchlets. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The evergreen, ascending to erect phyllodes have a narrowly elliptic shape and can be incurved. They have a length of 4 to 7 cm (1.6 to 2.8 in) and a width of 3 to 4.5 mm (0.12 to 0.18 in) and are semi-rigid and sharply to coarsely pungent and have three distant, raised nerves.^[1] It blooms from March to June producing cream flowers.^[2] The simple inflorescences occur in pairs in the axils forming cylindrical flower-spikes that have a length of 15 to 25 mm (0.59 to 0.98 in) and a diameter of 3 to 4.5 mm (0.12 to 0.18 in) and are subdensely packed with cream coloured flowers. The pendant, thinly-coriaceous and glabrous seed pods that form after flowering have a linear shape but are raised over and constricted between the seeds. The pods have a length of up to 10.5 cm (4.1 in) and a width of 4 mm (0.16 in) with the seeds arranged longitudinally inside. The slightly glossy black seeds have a broadly elliptic shape with a length of 3 to 4 mm (0.12 to 0.16 in) and an apical aril.^[1]

Distribution

It is native to a small area near Peak Charles in Peak Charles National Park in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia where it is found situated on granite mountain slopes and clay flats growing in sandy soils.^[2] The park is located approximately 100 km (62 mi) south of Norseman and the shrub is usually part of low heathland communities.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Acacia incongesta". World Wide Wattle. Western Australian Herbarium. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Acacia incongesta". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.

Taxon identifiers
Acacia incongesta	Wikidata: Q15287395 Wikispecies: Acacia incongesta APNI: 151256 CoL: 64BNQ EoL: 661214 FloraBase: 15288 FoAO2: Acacia incongesta GBIF: 2981018 IPNI: 981012-1 IRMNG: 10422067 Observation.org: 385635 Open Tree of Life: 3917793 Plant List: ild-49351 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:981012-1 Tropicos: 50005365 WFO: wfo-0000203022

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