Description
Notable Wattle
Distribution: Found in the southern part of South Australia except for Kangaroo Island and the South-East, growing in low woodland or open scrub vegetation on brown or shallow calcareous, hard alkaline, red duplex soil. Also found New South Wales and Victoria.
Status: Native. Common in South Australia. Rare in the other States.
Plant description: Tall, glabrous, spreading shrubs to 3 m high with smooth reddish-brown bark and spreading, almost terete branches. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, usually oblique to 15 cm long and 25 mm wide, straight or curved, flat, thick and rigid; glaucous with mid-vein prominent, lateral veins numerous and fine; margins thickened, yellowish vein-like; apex obtuse or acute, narrowed towards the base; glands on upper margin near the base. Flower-spike in axillary racemes, usually shorter than the leaves, consisting of 4-16 globular deep yellow flower-heads. Flowering between July and October.
Considered near threatened in Southern Yorke Peninsula
Sourced from: Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, the Government of South Australia, Sourced on 05/09/23, https://spapps.environment.sa.gov.au/SeedsOfSA/speciesinformation.html?rid=189
