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Acacia leichhardtii
Also called Leichhardt's Wattle
Acacia leichhardtii, commonly known as Leichhardt's wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-east Queensland, Australia. It is a spreading shrub with slender branches, often arching downwards, narrowly oblong to elliptic or lance-shaped phyllodes, spherical heads of bright golden yellow flowers and narrowly oblong, curved to straight, firmly papery to thinly leathery pods
Leichhardt's wattle is found in sporadic locations from the Blackdown Tableland National Park and south-east to Helidon where it grows in shallow soil on sandstone in open forest with closed scrub.
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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.
