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Acacia kenneallyi

Isotype K000821285^[1]
Conservation status
Priority Three — Poorly Known Taxa (DEC)
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. kenneallyi
Binomial name
*Acacia kenneallyi* R.S.Cowan & Maslin

Occurrence data from AVH

Acacia kenneallyi is a shrub or tree of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic to north western Australia.

Description

The spindly shrub or tree typically grows to a height of 2 to 7 metres (7 to 23 ft)^[2] and has terete and glabrous branchlets that are often covered in a fine white powdery coating. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The glabrous, leathery and evergreen phyllodes have a narrowly elongate-elliptic to linear shape and are straight to slightly curved with a length of 15 to 25 cm (5.9 to 9.8 in) and a width of 6 to 14 mm (0.24 to 0.55 in) and have one prominent central nerve, with a second weaker longitudinal nerve occasionally present.^[3] It blooms from May to June and produces yellow flowers.^[2] The axillary or terminal inflorescences have spherical flower-heads with a diameter of about 5 mm (0.20 in) and contain 46 to 56 densely packed golden coloured flowers. The leathery to sub-woody seed pods that form after flowering have a linear shape and are flat and straight with a length of up to around 11 cm (4.3 in) and a width of 10 to 11 mm (0.39 to 0.43 in).^[3]

Taxonomy

The species is closely related to Acacia spectra and Acacia latescens as well as Acacia orthotropica to which it is superficially dissimilar.^[3]

Distribution

It is native to an area in the Kimberely, region of Western Australia where it is commonly situated in areas of sandstone or dolerite growing in skeletal sandy soils.^[2] It is mostly found on the Bonaparte Archipelago and parts of the nearby mainland and also off-shore including on Heywood Island and Bigge Island as a part of Eucalyptus woodland communities.^[3]

References

^ "Acacia kenneallyi R.S.Cowan & Maslin". GBIF.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Acacia kenneallyi". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Acacia kenneallyi R.S.Cowan & Maslin". Wattle - Acacias of Australia. Lucid Central. Retrieved 30 November 2020.

Taxon identifiers
Acacia kenneallyi	Wikidata: Q15287461 Wikispecies: Acacia kenneallyi APNI: 151495 CoL: 8PGK EoL: 660971 FloraBase: 14124 FoAO2: Acacia kenneallyi GBIF: 2981014 IPNI: 981019-1 IRMNG: 10174944 NCBI: 1469222 Open Tree of Life: 3917797 Plant List: ild-48844 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:981019-1 Tropicos: 50005382 WFO: wfo-0000202493

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