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Acacia alaticaulis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales in Australia. It is a spindly, slender shrub to small tree with wavy, winged ridges on the branchlets, bipinnate leaves with 7 to 17 pairs of pinnae, flowers arranged in a racemes with 8 to 41 spherical heads of flowers, each with 12 to 16 pale yellow or pale cream-coloured flowers, and curved, more or less flat pods up to 40–120 mm (1.6–4.7 in) long.
This species of wattle is endemic to an area in eastern New South Wales where it has a restricted range around Howes Mountain and Mount Murwin areas and Yengo National Park area where it is commonly situated on hillslopes and ridges among and over sandstone bedrock or outcrops, or where areas of shale meet sandstones. It is found growing in sandy to sandy clay soils as a part of Eucalyptus woodlands or open forest communities as a part of the shrub understorey.
Acacia abbatiana · Acacia abbreviata · Acacia abrupta · Acacia acanthaster · Harrow Wattle · Acacia acellerata · Gold-dust acacia · Acacia aciphylla · Acacia acoma · Acacia acradenia · Strap Leaved Wattle · Acacia acuaria
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia alaticaulis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
