Acacia grasbyi

Miniritchie
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Genus:	Acacia
Species:	A. grasbyi
Binomial name
Acacia grasbyi Maiden

Acacia grasbyi, commonly known as miniritchie, is a tree in the family Fabaceae. Endemic to Australia, it occurs throughout the arid interior of Western Australia, with isolated populations in South Australia and the Northern Territory.

Miniritchie grows is a shrubby tree to a height of about four metres. It typically has several main stems. These are often twisted, and are always covered in distinctive minni ritchi bark, which peels in small curly flakes. Like most Acacia species, it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. These are rigid, round in cross-section with a diameter of about a millimetre, and up to nine centimetres long. The flowers are yellow, and held in cylindrical clusters about three centimetres long and five millimetres in diameter, on stalks about two centimetres long. The pods are brown, up to eleven centimetres long, with tight constrictions between the seeds.

References

• "Acacia grasbyi". Flora of Australia Online. Department of the Environment and Heritage, Australian Government. http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/online-resources/flora/stddisplay.xsql?pnid=41812. 
• "Acacia grasbyi". FloraBase. Department of Environment and Conservation, Government of Western Australia. http://florabase.dec.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/3355. 
• Mitchell, A. A. and Wilcox, D. G. (1994). Arid Shrubland Plants of Western Australia, Second and Enlarged Edition. University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, Western Australia. ISBN 1-875560-22-X.