Acacia stigmatophylla

Acacia stigmatophylla, also known as djulurd, is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae the is endemic to northern parts of Western Australia.

Description

The shrub typically grows to a height of and has smooth dark grey coloured bark. The glabrous, angular to flattened branchlets have red-brown to light brown colour and have resinous ridges. The straight, green phyllodes have a narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate shape. The phyllodes have a length of and width of and a small knob-like mucro at the apex and three prominent longitudinal nerves. It blooms from January to October producing yellow flowers. The cupular flowers widely spaced and the petals have a prominent midrib. After flowering brown woody, narrowly oblanceolate, flat, seed pods form that are basally narrowed form. The pods have a length of and a width of and open elastically from the apex. The dark brown seeds inside have a broadly oblong-elliptic shape and are in length.

Distribution

It is native to a large area in the Kimberley region of Western Australia from around Broome and east to the border with the Northern Territory where it is situated in a large variety of habitat growing in sometimes skeletal sandy soils over granite, sandstone or quartzite as a part of coastal monsoon forest on the hills and ranges above savannah grassland or open Eucalyptus woodland communities.