Acacia genistifolia
Link Spreading WattleOpen, often straggly, glabrous shrub, usually 0.6–3 m high; branchlet apices ribbed, ribs normally yellow. Phyllodes subdistant, usually patent to inclined, sessile, quadrangular to flat, 1–4(–8) cm long, 1–3 mm wide, rather coarse, rigid, straight to shallowly curved, green, apex usually asymmetric, pungent, cusp slender; veins 4, prominently 1-veined per face when flat, occasionally imperfectly 2–3-veined; gland 2–4 mm above base; stipules c. 1 mm long, sometimes deciduous. Peduncles usually 2–4 per axil, 1–2(–3) cm long, rather slender, basal bract deciduous; heads globular, 12–25-flowered, cream to rich lemon yellow. Flowers 4-merous; sepals united. Pods linear, 4–11 cm long, 4–7 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, arcuate to almost straight, raised over seeds; seeds longitudinal, 3.5–5.5 mm long, aril terminal. Flowers Feb.–Oct.
MuM, Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, MonT, VAlp. Also SA, NSW, ACT, Tas. (including Flinders and Bruny Islands). Apart from the mallee and higher parts of the Dividing Range, common through much of Victoria, growing on a variety of soils in sclerophyll forest, woodland or heathland.
There are three subspecies (Webb et al., 2021)
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.
SpinningSynonyms
Webb, A.T.; Ohlsen, D.; Walsh, N.G. (2021). A phenetic analysis of morphological variation in Acacia genistifolia (Fabaceae subf. Mimosoideae), with recognition of three subspecies. Muelleria 39: 113–126.
