Acacia brumalis
Acacia brumalis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a bushy or openly-branched shrub or tree with variable phyllodes, golden yellow flowers arranged in spherical to slightly oblong heads, and linear, thinly leathery to firmly papery pods.
Description
Acacia brumalis is bushy or openly-branched shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of, and sometimes has red, glabrous branchlets. Its phyllodes are variable, often lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, narrowly elliptic, oblong or linear, mostly long, wide. The flowers are borne in spherical or slightly oblong pods in diameter on racemes long on peduncles long. Each spike contains 17 to 25 golden-yellow flowers. Flowering occurs between late May and September and the pods are linear, thinly leathery to firmly papery, up to long and wide, containing dull black, oblong to elliptic seeds long.
Taxonomy
Acacia brumalis was first formally described in 1995 by Bruce Maslin in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected near the Mortlock River about south of Goomalling in 1976. The specific epithet means 'wintery', referring to the predominantly flower season of this wattle.
Distribution and habitat
Acacia brumalis grows in a variety of soil types between Regans Ford, Wubin and Hyden but also near Morawa and Northampton, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
Acacia brumalis is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.