Acacia botrydion

Acacia botrydion is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the Wongan Hills area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is an intricately branched, open shrub with spiny branchlets, elliptic to widely elliptic phyllodes, spherical heads of light golden-yellow flowers, and thinly crust-like, curved or coiled pods.

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Acacia botrydion is an intricately branched, open shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.3–1.5 m (1 ft 0 in – 4 ft 11 in) and 3 m (9.8 ft) wide, and has spiny branches. Its phyllodes are elliptic to widely elliptic, more or less wavy, 9–15 mm (0.35–0.59 in) long, 4–12 mm (0.16–0.47 in) wide and slightly sharply pointed. The flowers are borne in one or two spherical head in axils, on peduncles about 10 mm (0.39 in) long. Each head has 30 to 40 light golden–yellow flowers. Flowering occurs from July to September and the pods are curved or coiled, thinly crust-like, reddish brown, up to 40 mm (1.6 in) long and 4 mm (0.16 in) wide with inflated oblong, brown seeds 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) long with an aril on the end.

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