Acacia filipes
Acacia filipes is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the Northern Territory of Australia. It is a spreading shrub with smooth stems, slender ribbed branchlets, glabrous, terete phyllodes, spikes of yellow flowers and flat, linear pods.
Description
Acacia filipes is spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of and a width of around. It has slender, angular branchlets that are ribbed and resinous. Its phyllodes are glabrous, long and in diameter with a short point on the end, eight parallel, longitudinal veins and a gland up to from the base of the phyllode. The flowers are borne in two spikes long on a slender peduncle long in axils. Flowering has been observed in February and the pods are flat, linear, long and wide, slightly resinous and woody. The seeds are dark grey, about long and wide with a cup-shaped aril.
Taxonomy
Acacia filipes was first formally described in 1999 by Leslie Pedley in the journal Austrobaileya from specimens collected north of Jim Jim Falls, near the entrance to Deaf Adder Gorge in the Northern Territory.The specific epithet means 'thread-foot', and alludes to the shape of the peduncles.
Distribution and habitat
This species of wattle is native to a near Deaf Adder Gorge in Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory where it grows on top of sandstone escarpments.
Acacia filipes is listed as of "least concern", under the Northern Territory Government Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act.