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Acacia leptostachya
Also called Townsville Wattle
Acacia leptostachya, commonly known as Townsville wattle or slender wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland, Australia. It is a small shrub or tree with branchlets usually covered with soft hairs, narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped phyllodes, spikes of golden yellow flowers, and linear, firmly papery to thinly leathery pods raised over the seeds.
This species of shrub or tree grows well a full sun position in dry well drained soils. It can be propagated from seed after seeds are scarified or treated with boiling water.
This species of wattle grows in deep sand on sandstone or granite in eucalypt woodland, open forest or Triodia hummock grassland from the central-eastern parts of Cape York Peninsula near Coen through coastal and inland districts ae far south as Maryborough and south of Charleville. It is also found near Riversleigh Station, about 200 km (120 mi) north-west of Mount Isa.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia leptostachya 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.
