Similar to A. ulicifolia but distinguished in the following ways. Sprawling, commonly semi-prostrate shrub, less than 1 m high; branchlets glabrous or with sparse, minute hairs. Phyllodes linear, 8–25 mm long, quadrangular-terete to flat with a pronounced midrib, neither broadening nor with a gland-angle at base, often distant, slender; stipules frequently deciduous, usually less than 1 mm long. Heads bright golden to deep golden. Flowers Jul.–Nov.
Wim, VVP, GipP, OtP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, HSF, Strz. Also Qld, NSW. Grows on sand in heath, dry sclerophyll woodland or open-forest.
Acacia brownii is sometimes treated as a variety of A. ulicifolia, and intermediates between the 2 taxa are not uncommon.
Source:
Entwisle, T.J.; Maslin, B.R.; Cowan, R.S.; Court, A.B. (1996). Mimosaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 585–658. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
