Acacia cedroides
Acacia cedroides is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the Fitzgerald River National Park in the southwest of Western Australia. It is a dense, prickly shrub with many ribbed branchlets, sharply pointed phyllodes arranged in whorls, spherical heads of cream-coloured to pale yellow flowers, and more or less terete, thinly crust-like to leathery pods.
Description
Acacia cedroides is a dense, prickly shrub typically that grows to a height of and has finely ribbed, striated, hairy branchlets. Its phyllodes are arranged in whorls, each phyllode long and wide, usually glabrous and sharply pointed. The flowers are borne in spherical heads on a peduncle long, each head with 15 to 25 cream-coloured to pale yellow flowers. Flowering occurs from August to November and the pods are more or less terete, thinly crusty to leathery, up to long and wide, reddish-brown and coarsely striated containing oblong, light greyish-brown seeds long with a conical aril.
Taxonomy
Acacia cedroides was first formally described in 1855 by George Bentham in the journal Linnaea from specimens collected by James Drummond between the Swan River and King George Sound. The specific epithet means 'cedar tree-like'.
This species of wattle grows on quartzite hills in heath or open shrubland in the Fitzgerald River National Park in the Esperance Plains bioregion.
Acacia cedroides is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.