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Acacia latisepala

Acacia latisepala
Photo: Gderrin, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SE. Queensland to NE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia latisepala is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a spreading shrub with smooth, grey bark, leathery bipinnate leaves with one to three pairs of pinnae, each with four to eight mostly oblong pinnules, sometimes phyllodes, spherical heads of bright to dark yellow flowers and straight to curved, more or less flat, leathery to slightly woody pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle grows in heath or dry sclerophyll forest, often amongst granite boulders, on mountain slopes in shallow sandy soil. It is found in the Darling Downs district of Queensland and on the Northern Tablelands in New South Wales.

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 latisepala 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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