Acacia menzelii
Acacia menzelii, commonly known as Tallebung wattle or Menzel's wattle, is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves native to a small area of southern Australia.
Description
The shrub typically grows to a height of and has compact, rounded and spreading habit. It has sparsely hairy branchlets that branch off near ground level forming a number of ascending stems. The flat, green, terete phyllodes have a linear shape and can be straight or incurved. The phyllodes have a length of and a width of and have six brownish nerves.Taxonomy
The specific epithet honours O.E.Menzel, a botanist who collected the type specimen near Monarto in 1897.The shrub is part of the Acacia wilhelmiana group along with nine close relatives: Acacia abrupta, Acacia ascendens, Acacia barattensis, Acacia brachypoda, Acacia cowaniana, Acacia helmsiana, Acacia leptalea, Acacia gracilifolia and Acacia viscifolia.