Acacia euthyphylla
Acacia euthyphylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a dense to medium dense, rounded to funnel-shaped shrub with finely ribbed, glabrous branchlets, erect linear phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and linear pods.
Description
Acacia euthyphylla is a dense to medium dense rounded to funnel-shaped shrub that typically grows to a height of and has slightly bending, finely ribbed, glabrous branchlets. The phyllodes are erect, linear, straight to slightly curved, long, wide and slightly thickened, with a gland or more above the base of the phyllode. The flowers are borne in two spherical heads in axils on a peduncle long. Each head is in diameter with 18 to 23 golden yellow flowers. Flowering occurs in August and September and the immature pods are linear, up to long and wide.
Taxonomy
Acacia euthyphylla was first formally described in 1999 by Bruce Maslin in the journal Nuytsia from specimens he collected south of the northern boundary of the Truslove water reserve in 1985. The specific epithet means 'straight-leaved' and refers to the more or less erect phyllodes.
Distribution and habitat
This species of wattle grows in sand or clay loam in seasonal swamps, or around the edges of salt lakes, marshes and seasonally wet swamps between Truslove and east to Clyde Hill, (about east of Truslove in the Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregions of southern Western Australia.
Conservation status
Acacia euthyphylla is listed as "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat.