Acacia burdekensis
Acacia burdekensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to North Queensland. It is a shrub or tree with mostly curved, greyish-green phyllodes, spikes of bright golden yellow flowers, and linear pods.
Description
Acacia burdekensis is a shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of and is glabrous, often with reddish branchlets. Its phyllodes are mostly slightly to strongly curved, long and wide, glabrous and with many parallel veins, two or three more prominent than the others. The flowers are bright golden-yellow, borne in spikes long on peduncles mostly long. Flowering has been recorded between February and August, and the pods are glabrous, linear, sticky and dark brown, wide.
Taxonomy
Acacia burdekensis was first formally described by Leslie Pedley in the journal Austrobaileya from specimens collected by Anthony Bean near Bertya Creek in the White Mountains National Park in 1992. The specific epithet is a contraction of 'burdekin' and '-ensis', referring to the species mostly occurring in the basin of the Burdekin River.
This species of wattle grows in stony and sandy soils on hillsides and near creek banks and is largely restricted to the northern parts of the Burdekin River in northern Queensland.
Acacia burdekensis is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.