Acacia rhamphophylla

The low spreading shrub typically grows to a height of 0.2 to 0.4 metres (1 to 1 ft)[2] and a width of 0.4 to 1.1 m (1 ft 4 in to 3 ft 7 in).[1] It has hairy, slender, dark grey coloured branchlets with setaceous recurved stipules that are 5 to 7 mm (0.20 to 0.28 in) in length. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The glabrous, dark green phyllodes are crowded on the branchlets. The linear phyllodes have a length of 11 to 17 mm (0.43 to 0.67 in) and a width of 1 to 1.5 mm (0.039 to 0.059 in) are narrowed at the base and with a raised and prominent midrib.[3] It blooms from August to September and produces yellow flowers.[2]

It is known to be closely related to Acacia laricina and Acacia cedroides and is also closely allied to Acacia pusilla.[3]

It is native to an area in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia where it is often situated on the higher areas of low ranges growing in rocky sandy clay soils.[2] as part of open mallee scrub communities. Its limited range in the Ravensthorpe Range where it is found in an area of on vacant crown land, some of which is a mining lease. In 1992, there are known to be over 100 individual plants.[1]

• List of Acacia species