Acacia brunioides
Acacia brunioides, commonly known as brown wattle is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with more or less cylindrical phyllodes, inflorescenses arranged singly in leaf axils, each with 20 to 27 more or less white to bright yellow flowers, and straight, papery to leathery pods up to long.
Description
Acacia brunioides is an erect or spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of. It has crowded, spirally arranged, straight or slightly curved cylindrical phyllodes that are long and wide and green to more or less glaucous. The inflorescences are in diameter, arranged singly in the axil of phyllodes on a peduncle long, each with 20 to 27 more or less white to bright yellow flowers. Flowering occurs in August and September and the fruit is a papery to thin leathery pod long and wide.Taxonomy
Acacia brunioides was first formally described in 1832 by George Don in his book A General History of Dichlamydeous Plants, from an unpublished manuscript by Allan Cunningham. The specific epithet means "Brunia-like".The names of 2 subspecies of A. brunioides are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:Acacia brunioides A.Cunn. ex G.Don subsp. brunioides has phyllodes long and pale yellow to cream-coloured or almost white flowers on a peduncle long, and pods wide.Acacia brunioides subsp. granitica Pedley has phyllodes long and bright yellow flowers, and pods wide.