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Acacia lespedleyi, Les Pedley's wattle, is a small shrub (up to about 3 m) from south-eastern Queensland, known only from a very restricted native area. It is rarely cultivated, so the care notes below are general wattle guidance.
Acacia lespedleyi, commonly known as Les Pedley's wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Queensland, Australia. It is a shrub with stringy bark, glabrous, red-tan branchlets, linear, striated phyllodes, spikes of golden yellow flowers, and linear, thinly leathery to crusty pods.
Les Pedley's wattle only known from the type location where there are two subpopulations 2 km (1.2 mi) apart, each occupying less the 2 km2 (0.77 sq mi) on the pastoral property Telemark, with the estimated number of mature individuals being less than 500. The habitat is low open forest dominated variously by Allocasuarina inophloia, Corymbia citriodora, C. trachyphloia, Eucalyptus cloeziana, E. crebra, E. exserta, E. fibrosa, and Lysicarpus angustifolius. The midstorey and understory canopies are very sparse mostly containing legumes shrubs and grasses.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia lespedleyi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
