Acacia infecunda

Acacia infecunda, also known as famine wattle, is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae that is native to parts of south eastern Australia.

Description

The shrub typically grows to a height of and as much as. It readily suckers and has glabrous branchlets. It has linear grey-green phyllodes that are long and in width. The thin and glabrous phyllodes are straight and flat and have a non-prominent midrib and absent lateral nerves. It blooms between August and October producing simple inflorescences that occur in groups of five to ten on racemes with a length of. The spherical flower-heads have a diameter of and contain five to nine golden coloured flowers.

Taxonomy

The species was first formally described by the botanists Bill Molyneux & S. G. Forrester in 2008 as part of the work "Three new Acacia species from East Gippsland, Victoria" as published in the journal Muelleria. It is closely related to Acacia boormanii which is much taller.

Distribution

The shrub has a limited distribution in north-western Victoria to the south of Wulgulmerang around Splitters Creek on elevated rocky areas in dry open forest communities growing in rocky shallow soils. Only a single small population of fragmented stands growing in a limited area is known on the Wombargo Range in the headwaters of the Little River which is a tributary of the Snowy River.