Acacia catenulata
Acacia catenulata, commonly known as bendee, is a tree belonging to the genus "Acacia" and the subgenus "Juliflorae" that is endemic to some arid areas in Australia. Description. The tree typically grows to a height of with a dark deeply fluted trunk with numerous short horizontal branches and angular branchlets with darker young growth and that have a scattering of short hairs. Like most species of "Acacia" it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The evergreen, flat, straight phyllodes are glabrescent with a length of and a width of and are finely striated longitudinally with a more prominent  midnerve. When it blooms it produces simple inflorescences that occur singly or in pairs in the axils with cylindrical flower-spikes that are in length. After flowering pale brown flat seed pods form that are contracted between each of the seeds. The pods are quite straight with a length of up to and a width of that are glabrous and longitudinally wrinkled. The longitudinally arranged oblong seeds are in length and wide with a small yellow aril. Taxonomy. It was first formally described by the botanist Cyril Tenison White in 1944 as part of the work "Contributions to the Queensland  Flora" as published in the "Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland". It was reclassified as "Racosperma catenulatum" by Leslie Pedley in 1987 and transferred back to genus "Acacia" in 2001. There are two recognized subspecies Distribution. It is native to an area of the Pilbara region of Western Australia centred around Newman where it is commonly found on scarps composed of weathered sediments growing in shallow soils. It only has a limited distribution in the Northern Territory but is quite common in central and southern Queensland.