Acacia kingiana
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Acacia kingiana is probably extinct , Australian plant species from the genus of Acacia ( Acacia ) in the family of legumes (Fabaceae). It wasscientifically describedin 1928 by Joseph Henry Maiden and William Faris Blakely .
Description and habitat
Acacia kingiana was a bushy shrub that reached heights of 2 to 3 meters. It had small twigs with fine felted hair. The asymmetrically narrow, elongated to narrowly elliptical , lanceolate phyllodes were ten millimeters long and two to three millimeters wide.
30 to 40 individual flowers together formed a racemose inflorescence . The 4 millimeter long flower stalks had fine felted hair. The small flowers were golden yellow. The flowering period lasted from August to September.
The habitat comprised gravel soils.
status
Acacia kingiana is known only from the type specimen collected in September 1923 in the Avon Wheatbelt region northeast of Wagin in southwestern Western Australia . Since then, this plant species has not been detected and is listed as an extinct species in both the Western Australian Wildlife Conservation Act of 1950 and the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act of 1999.
literature
- Joseph Maiden & William Blakely: Acacia kingiana species nov. In: Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 13 (24 Oct. 1927) 19, t. ix.
- Anthony E. Orchard, Annette JG Wilson: Flora of Australia - Mimosaceae, Acacia Part 2 CSIRO Publishing, 2001 ISBN 0643067205 , pp. 33-34