Acacia camptoclada
Acacia camptoclada is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a low, spreading to erect, glabrous shrub with crowded, oblong to narrowly oblong phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers, and coiled, firmly papery to thinly leathery pods.
Description
Acacia camptoclada is a low, spreading to erect, glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of and is slightly sticky. Its phyllodes are crowded, ascending to erect, oblong to narrowly oblong, long and wide with a more or less sharply-pointed point on the end. There are stipules at the base of the phyllodes but that fall off. The flowers are borne in two to five spherical heads in racemes long on peduncles long. The heads are often crowded in upper axils, and contain 15 to 21 showy, golden yellow flowers. Flowering occurs from August to October, and the pods are coiled once or twice, firmly papery to thinly leathery, wide containing black, egg-shaped to elliptic seeds about long.
Taxonomy
Acacia camptoclada was first formally described in 1904 by Cecil Rollo Payton Andrews in the Journal of the West Australian Natural History Society from specimens he collected near Dundas in 1903. The specific epithet means 'flexible-, curved- or bent-shoot or branch.
Distribution and habitat
This species of wattle grows in sand or clay in woodland and mallee between Southern Cross to near Balladonia in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Great Victoria Desert, Mallee and Murchison bioregions of Western Australia.
Acacia camptoclada is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.