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Sharp Feather Wattle

Acacia leptoclada

Sharp Feather Wattle
Photo: Ruth Palsson, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
NE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia leptoclada, commonly known as sharp feather wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern New South Wales, Australia. It is a spreading shrub with pendulous branches, more or less terete branchlets, bipinnate leaves with up to five pairs of pinnae, each with 5 to 13 pairs of pinnules, spherical heads of dark golden or dark yellow flowers and hairy, leathery pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle grows in open forest and shrubland in sandy, granitic and serpentinite soils between Yetman, Warialda, Barraba and Guyra in the Northern Tablelands of 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 leptoclada 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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