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Acacia ancistrocarpa, commonly known as Fitzroy wattle or pirrara, sometimes also fish hook wattle, pindan wattle or shiny leaved wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to north-western Australia. The Walmajarri people of the Paruku IPA in the Kimberley call this wattle, kampuka. It is a multi-stemmed, fastigiate shrub, with linear or very narrow elliptic phyllodes, spikes of golden-yellow flowers, and narrowly oblong or cultrate pods up to 60–115 mm (2.4–4.5 in) long.
Fitzroy wattle is widespread in the Northern Territory, the Pilbara and Kimberley regions and in far western Queensland. It usually grows in mallee-spinifex communities, stony spinifex grassland, pindan and along watercourses in deep sand on plains. Mostly it will not form dense stands but regenerates readily from seed after ground disturbances or bushfires and then can produce reasonably dense populations.
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 ancistrocarpa 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.
