Acacia clandullensis

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Gold dust wattle
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Acacia
Species:
A. clandullensis
Binomial name
Acacia clandullensis
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Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms [2]

Racosperma clandullense(B.J.Conn & Tame) Pedley

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Habit in the Capertee Valley

Acacia clandullensis, commonly known as gold-dust wattle, [3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales, Australia. It is an open shrub with hanging, densely hairy branchlets, more or less circular to elliptic or egg-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, spherical heads of pale yellow to yellow flowers and straight, or slightly curved, glabrous, leathery to firm pods.

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Description

Acacia clandullensis is an open shrub with slightly ridged, densely hairy, hanging branchlets and that typically grows to a height of up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in). Its phyllodes are somewhat crowded, twisted or sometimes bent, more or less circular to broadly elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, mostly 7–1 mm (0.276–0.039 in) long and 5–10 mm (0.20–0.39 in) wide, their bases in the same plane as the branchlets. The phyllodes are light green and wavy with scattered hairs. The flowers are borne in a spherical head in axils on a peduncle 3–14 mm (0.12–0.55 in) long, each head 4–8 mm (0.16–0.31 in) in diameter with 20 to 30 pale yellow to yellow flowers. Flowering occurs in most months, and the pods are flat, straight or slightly curved, leathery to firm and glabrous, 30–90 mm (1.2–3.5 in) long and 13–22 mm (0.51–0.87 in) wide and dark brown. [3] [4] [5] [6]

Taxonomy

Acacia clandullensis was first formally described in 1996 by the botanists Barry Conn and Terry Tame in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected at Glen Davis by Roger Coveny in 1966. [7] The specific epithet (clandullensis) refers to Clandulla, near the main area of occurrence of this species. [4]

Distribution

Gold-dust wattle is mostly found in the areas around Clandulla and Glen Davis growing at higher altitudes in stony sandy or clay-loam soils where it is usually part of open Eucalyptus rossii woodland. [5] There is also a localised population near Yerranderie. [4]

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References

  1. Plummer, J. (2021). "Acacia clandullensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2021: e.T172605854A176376523. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T172605854A176376523.en . Retrieved 29 May 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Acacia clandullensis". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 1 July 2025.
  3. 1 2 Kodela, Phillip G. "Acacia clandullensis". Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Retrieved 1 July 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 Conn, Barry J.; Tame, T.M. "Acacia clandullensis". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. Retrieved 1 July 2025.
  5. 1 2 "Acacia clandullensis B.J.Conn & Tame". Wattle Acacias of Australia. Department of the Environment and Energy. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  6. "Acacia clandullensis". World Wide Wattle. Retrieved 1 July 2025.
  7. "Acacia clandullensis". APNI. Retrieved 1 July 2025.