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Hairy Pod Wattle

Acacia glandulicarpa

Hairy Pod Wattle
Photo: gmgoods, CC BY 4.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SE. South Australia to W. Victoria
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia glandulicarpa, commonly known as hairy-pod wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is a dense, spreading, slightly sticky shrub with hairy branchlets, egg-shaped to elliptic phyllodes, spherical heads of bright yellow flowers and oblong, thinly leathery pods.

Where it grows

Hairy-pod wattle has a scattered distribution, occurring in Burra Creek Gorge, Hanson and Bordertown areas in South Australia and the Little Desert-Dimboola area in Victoria. The species grows in alkaline soil on rocky hills, in open scub or open forest. The population in Victoria is scattered in about 100 woodland sites, located in southern Wimmera, south-west of Horsham and north of Nhill to near Burra Creek Gorge area and Bordertown area in South Australia, through to the Little Desert and Dimboola in Victoria where it is found on rocky hills as a part of scrub or Eucalyptus woodland communities.

Other Acacia plants

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 glandulicarpa 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.

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