Flora of Victoria

Diffuse shrub, prostrate to 0.5 m high, rarely more; branchlets slender, finely ribbed, variously covered with short stiff hairs, rarely glabrous. Phyllodes inclined, spreading and/or reflexed, terete to subterete (more or less quadrangular when dry), 5–12(–20)mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, slender, rigid, pungent, cusp slender and c. 1 mm long, pulvinus asymmetric, glabrous or less commonly hairy; veins 4, often minutely and irregularly papillose; stipules c. 1 mm long. Peduncles 1–3 per axil, 5–13 mm long, slender, glabrous, basal bract c. 1 mm long; heads globular, sometimes obloid, c. 20-flowered, lemon-yellow. Flowers 4-merous; sepals free to near base. Pods linear, biconvex, to 6 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, straight to shallowly curved, glabrous; seeds longitudinal, oblong, 3.5–4 mm long, aril terminal. Flowers Aug.–Oct.

CVU, DunT, EGL, EGU, GipP, Glep, Gold, GGr, HFE, HNF, HSF, MonT, NIS, OtP, OtR, VVP. Also NSW. Widespread and sometimes locally abundant, often growing in rocky areas in Eucalyptus woodland or forest or closed heath.

Plants with hairy phyllodes are common in the Grampians but occur less frequently elsewhere (e.g. Muckleford, Swanpool). Phyllodes vary in size and orientation between populations, sometimes few being reflexed.

Differs from A. ulicifolia and A. brownii in having phyllodes often reflexed, and flowers 4-merous. See also notes under A. genistifolia.

Source: Entwisle, T.J.; Maslin, B.R.; Cowan, R.S.; Court, A.B. (1996). Mimosaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J. (eds), Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae. Inkata Press, Melbourne.

life Life

kingdom Plantae

phylum Tracheophyta

class Magnoliopsida

superorder Rosanae

order Fabales

family Fabaceae

genus Acacia

Higher taxa

species Acacia aculeatissima J.F.Macbr.

Victoria

**Source:** AVH (2014). *Australia's Virtual Herbarium*, Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria, <http://avh.chah.org.au>. Find Acacia aculeatissima in AVH ; *Victorian Biodiversity Atlas*, © The State of Victoria, Department of Environment and Primary Industries (published Dec. 2014) Find Acacia aculeatissima in Victorian Biodiversity Atlas

Bioregion	Occurrence status	Establishment means
Glenelg Plain	present	native
Victorian Volcanic Plain	present	native
Gippsland Plain	present	native
Otway Plain	present	native
Goldfields	present	native
Central Victorian Uplands	present	native
Greater Grampians	present	native
Dundas Tablelands	present	native
Northern Inland Slopes	present	native
East Gippsland Lowlands	present	native
East Gippsland Uplands	present	native
Highlands-Southern Fall	present	native
Highlands-Northern Fall	present	native
Otway Ranges	present	native
Monaro Tablelands	present	native
Highlands-Far East	present	native

Bioregions of Victoria

State distribution

State
Western Australia
South Australia
Queensland
New South Wales
Victoria
Tasmania

Acacia aculeatissima J.F.Macbr.

Thin-leaf Wattle

Victoria

State distribution