Acacia truncata

Taxobox
color = lightgreen
name = Red-eyed wattle
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Fabales
familia = Fabaceae
genus = "Acacia"
species = "A. truncata"
binomial = "Acacia truncata"
binomial_authority = (Burm.f.) Hoffmanns.

"Acacia truncata" is a coastal shrub in the family Fabaceae, with a native distribution along the southwest coast of Western Australia. A specimen of this was part of an early european botanical collection, perhaps the first from Australia.

A dense and dome shaped plant 0.5 - 2.3 metres high. Flowerheads are globe-shaped and composed of 7-16 pale yellow flowers, these are on stalks between 10 and 25 mm long.Like many other "Acacia" species, "A. truncata" has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The phyllodes range from nine to twenty five millimeters long and five to thirteen millimetres wide.

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