Acacia nanopravissima

Acacia nanopravissima, also known as little kooka wattle, is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae where it is endemic to south eastern Australia.

Description

The shrub typically grows to a height of but can reach as high as and has glabrous branchlets. The crowded green phyllodes have a markedly inequilateral shape with a length of and a width of. When it blooms between late August and early October, it produces racemose inflorescences with spherical flower-heads that contain seven to nine golden coloured flowers.

Distribution

It is native to a small area in north eastern Victoria around Splitters Creek as a part of open forest communities growing in shallow sediment based soils. It is confined to a small area to the south of Wulgulmerang in East Gippsland and is only found as a single small population in the upper catchment of Little River, a tributary of the Snowy River on the Wombargo Range.