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Acacia chinchillensis
Acacia chinchillensis, commonly known as chinchilla wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland, Australia. It is a multistemmed, glaucous shrub with bipinnate leaves with 2 to 4 pairs of pinnae, each with 5 to 11 pairs of pinnules. The flowers are borne in spherical heads of golden or yellow flowers, the pods are often curved, and thinly leathery and up to 100 mm (3.9 in) long.
Chinchilla wattle ocurs from north of Chincilla to near Tara where it grows in ironbark (eg. Eucalyptus melanophloia) and Callitris columellaris - Casuarina woodland in sandy or gravelly soils.
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 chinchillensis 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.
