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Manna wattle

Acacia microcarpa

Manna wattle
Photo: Rosalie Lawrence, CC BY 4.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SE. South Australia to C. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia microcarpa, commonly known as manna wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, and is endemic to the south-east of mainland Australia. It is a glabrous, erect to spreading shrub with usually lance-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, spherical heads of bright, mid golden yellow flowers, and firmly papery, linear pods prominently raised over the seeds.

Where it grows

Manna wattle grows in a range of vegetation associations and soil type, including in mallee in red sand and sandy loam from Wudinna on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia to the Mallee Cliffs National Park in New South Wales and to Gunbower in northern

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 microcarpa 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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