Common Name: Dwarf Nealie
Botanical Name: Acacia wilhelmiana
Family: LEGUMINOSAE
Description:
Bushy, dense, rounded to spreading shrub, 1-2 m high, often with rough (due to raised phyllode bases) sticky branchlets. Phyllodes thick, subtly s-shaped, often sticky and mealy, ending in a short hard point, 1.5-3 cm long by 2-4 mm wide, with 2 (up to 5) prominent longitudinal veins on each face. Yellow, globular flower heads, solitary or twin, on short golden hairy stalks. Late winter to spring (August to October). Narrow, brown pods, 3-6 cm long by 2.5 mm wide, twisted, often curved in a circle, without constrictions between enclosed seed. Summer (December to January).
Bushy, dense, rounded to spreading shrub, 1-2 m high, often with rough (due to raised phyllode bases) sticky branchlets. Phyllodes thick, subtly s-shaped, often sticky and mealy, ending in a short hard point, 1.5-3 cm long by 2-4 mm wide, with 2 (up to 5) prominent longitudinal veins on each face. Yellow, globular flower heads, solitary or twin, on short golden hairy stalks. Late winter to spring (August to October). Narrow, brown pods, 3-6 cm long by 2.5 mm wide, twisted, often curved in a circle, without constrictions between enclosed seed. Summer (December to January).
Natural Distribution:
Common to the lower rainfall districts of SA including the Northern Lofty (uncommon), Eyre Peninsula, Murray region and Flinders Ranges. Extends into Vic and NSW. Common to mallee areas.
Common to the lower rainfall districts of SA including the Northern Lofty (uncommon), Eyre Peninsula, Murray region and Flinders Ranges. Extends into Vic and NSW. Common to mallee areas.
Notes:
May be confused with Acacia sclerophylla, A. farinosa and A. montana due to 2 prominent veins visible on 'leaf'.
May be confused with Acacia sclerophylla, A. farinosa and A. montana due to 2 prominent veins visible on 'leaf'.
