Acacia gittinsii

Acacia gittinsii is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Queensland, Australia. It is a graceful shrub, similar to A. ruppii.

Description

Acacia gittinsii is a graceful shrub that typically grows to a height of and is similar to A. ruppii except that its phyllodes are linear to narrowly linear, long, wide, its flowers borne in six to fifteen heads in racemes long with slender and sparsely to moderately hairy peduncles, each head in diameter with about 20 flowers. Its pods are slightly glaucous and glabrous to subglabrous.

Taxonomy

Acacia gittinsii was first formally described in 1964 by Leslie Pedley in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland from specimens collected by Clifford Halliday Gittins on the Blackdown Tableland in 1961.

Distribution and habitat

This species of wattle is confined to the Blackdown Tableland where it grows on sandstone in Eucalyptus woodland, often in wetter areas.

Conservation status

Acacia gittinsii is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.