Acacia kingiana

Acacia kingiana is most likely extinct Australian species of the genus Acacia (Acacia ) in the legume family ( Fabaceae ). She was described in 1928 by Joseph Henry Maiden and William Faris Blakely scientifically.

Description and habitat

Acacia kingiana was a bushy shrub, which reached stature heights of 2 to 3 meters. He had small, feinfilzig hairy branches. The asymmetrical narrow oblong to narrowly elliptic verkehrtlanzettlichen phyllodes were ten millimeters long and two to three millimeters wide.

30 to 40 individual flowers together formed a racemose inflorescence. The 4 -millimeter-long flower stalks had a feinfilzige hair. The small flowers were golden. The flowering period lasted from August to September.

The habitat consisted of gravel soils.

Status

Acacia kingiana is only known from the type specimen, which was collected in September 1923 in the region of the Avon Wheatbelt north-east of Wagin in southwestern Western Australia. Since then, this species has not been detected and is in both the Western Australian Wildlife Conservation Act of 1950 as listed in 1999 as an extinct species in the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.