| Acacia cremiflora | |
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Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Caesalpinioideae |
| Clade: | Mimosoid clade |
| Genus: | Acacia |
| Species: | A. cremiflora |
| Binomial name | |
| Acacia cremiflora B.J.Conn & Tame | |
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| Occurrence data fromAVH | |
Acacia cremiflora, is a smallwattle plant occurring in parts of inlandNew South Wales. It may be seen growing nearOrange andYerranderie.[1] It was first collected on 15 May 1972. The attractive yellow or cream flowers may appear at any time of the year.
The shrub usually has a bushy habit and grows to a height of less than 1 m (3 ft 3 in) but can reach as high as 2 m (6 ft 7 in). It is often composed of five to six main branches diverging at the base of the plant. The branches are erect or arched and split into ribbed, brown to green, smooth, hairy branchlets. The dark grey-green to green colouredphyllodes are flat or convex with an elliptic to broadly elliptic or slightly orbicular shape. the phyllodes usually have a length of 7 to 17 mm (0.28 to 0.67 in) and a width of 4 to 14 mm (0.16 to 0.55 in) with an undulate margin and acute apex. When it blooms it producesinflorescences with spherical flower-heads that have a diameter of 7 to 8 mm (0.28 to 0.31 in) and contain 18 to 26 pale yellow to cream-coloured flowers. Theseed pods that form after flowering are a dull brown to dark brown colour and have an oblong to broadly oblong shape and are straight or sometimes curved with a length of 40 to 80 mm (1.6 to 3.1 in) and a width of 15 to 30 mm (0.59 to 1.18 in) and are thickly coriaceous.[2]
The species was first formally described by the botanistsBarry John Conn andTerrence Michael Tame in 1996 as part of the workA revision of the Acacia uncinata group (Fabaceae-Mimosoideae) as published in the journalAustralian Systematic Botany. It was reclassified asRacosperma cremiflorum in 2003 byLeslie Pedley then transferred back to genusAcacia in 2006.[3]
The shrub isendemic to inland parts of New South Wales from aroundUarby andElong Elong in the north down to aroundMudgee andYerranderie in the south and extending as far west asParkes.[2] The more northern populations are mostly situated in woodlands and open woodland-grassland communities growing in stony clayey loamy soils whereas populations in the south are part ofEucalyptus woodlands growing in gravelly clay or sandy loam soils.[2]