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Hairy sandstone wattle
Acacia anserina
About
Acacia anserina, also known as hairy sandstone wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a small area in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It is an erect, openly-branched shrub with its branchlets densely covered with soft hairs, widely elliptic to widely egg-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, spherical heads of 17 to 25 light golden flowers, and narrowly oblong pods up to 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) wide.
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Acacia anserina
- Slug
- acacia-anserina
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Acacia
- Species
- anserina
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 28
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