Acacia delibrata
Acacia delibrata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern Western Australia. It is a slender shrub or tree with distinctive minni ritchi bark, very narrowly elliptic to more or less linear phyllodes, spikes of pale yellow or cream-coloured flowers and linear, crust-like pods, appearing somewhat like a string of beads.
Description
Acacia delibrata is a slender shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of up to with minni ritchi bark up to high. Its branchlets are dark red-brown, and covered with silky hairs or glabrous. The phyllodes are very narrowly elliptic to more or less linear, long, wide and thin with a conspicuous mid-vein and up to three less prominent veins. The flowers are pale yellow or cream-coloured and borne in spikes long. Flowering has been recorded in April to June and in August and October, and the pods are linear, often twisted, and resemble a string of beads long and crust-like. The seeds are round, long and light brown to blackish.
Taxonomy
Acacia delibrata was first formally described in 1842 by George Bentham in Hooker's London Journal of Botany from an unpublished description by Allan Cunningham of specimens collected near the north-west coast of Western Australia. The specific epithet means 'stripped of bark'.
This species of wattle grows in tropical Western Australia on the offshore islands and mainland between latitude 15°S and 17°S and longitude 123°E and 127°E. It grows in stony soil over quartzite or sandstone on plateaus on the coast or along watercourses in woodland or in pure stands in the Central Kimberley and Northern Kimberley bioregions of northern Western Australia.
Conservation status
Acacia delibrata is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.