Acacia conspersa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the Northern Territory of Australia. It is a shrub or tree with fissured or rough and stringy bark, narrowly elliptic phyllodes with a pointed tip, spikes of bright yellow flowers and linear, leathery, curved pods.
Acacia conspersa is shrub or tree that typically grows a height of up to 7.5m (25ft) and has fissured or rough and stringy bark, and densely hairy, wand-like branchlets. The phyllodes are narrowly elliptic, leathery, 50–80mm (2.0–3.1in) long,5–10mm (0.20–0.39in) wide and narrowed near the tip, with a sometimes sharply-pointed tip. There are stipules1–2mm (0.039–0.079in) long at the base of the phyllodes. The flowers are borne in bright yellow spikes 30–50mm (1.2–2.0in) long on a peduncle1–3mm (0.039–0.118in) long. Flowering occurs from April and October, and the pods are linear, leathery and curved, 40–130mm (1.6–5.1in) long and 2.5–4mm (0.098–0.157in) wide with dark brown seeds 4.6–5.7mm (0.18–0.22in) long.[2][3][4][5]
This species of wattle is endemic to tropical areas of the Northern Territory where it often grows in colonies in stony, sandy soils, or in alluvium, in grassland, shrubland, woodland or tall wet forest, along creeks, on hills or in gullies.[2][3][4]
1 2 Tindale, Mary D.; Kodela, Phillip G. Kodela, Phillip G. (ed.). "Acacia conspersa". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
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