Acacia crombiei, commonly known as pink gidgee,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland Australia. It is a tree with twisted, glabrous branchlets and narrowly linear, leathery phyllodes, flowers in spherical heads and narrowly oblong firmly papery to thinly leathery pods.
Acacia crombiei is a tree that typically grows to a height of up to 10m (33ft) and has twisted, glabrous branchlets. The phyllodes are narrowly linear, straight to slightly curved, mostly 70–150mm (2.8–5.9in) long, 3–8mm (0.12–0.31in) wide, narrowed at both ends and leathery with the midrib and edge veins prominent. There is an oblong to more or less linear gland1–2mm (0.039–0.079in) long, up to 4mm (0.16in) above the base of the phyllode. The flowers are borne in up to four spherical heads on peduncles10–20mm (0.39–0.79in) long. Flowering has been recorded in April, May, August and October and the pods are narrowly oblong, firmly papery to thinly leathery, up to 100mm (3.9in) long and 16–22mm (0.63–0.87in) wide with knob-like protruberances along the midline. The seeds are oblong to widely elliptic, dark brown and slightly shiny, 8–10mm (0.31–0.39in) long and 7.0–8.5mm (0.28–0.33in) wide.[2][3][4]
This species of wattle is reported to have a habit that is similar in appearance to Acacia cana or A. cambagei.[2]
This species of wattle grows in small, isolated populations around the small town of Muttaburra to around Elmore Station north of Richmond in central Queensland.[3] It has been collected as far south as around Winton north over a distance of 450km (280mi) to around Greenvale. The species occurs in an area of around 34,000km2 (13,000sqmi) with 15 sub-populations with an estimated total population of about 20,000 individual plants.[7] It is usually part of on wooded downs or in open woodland communities often associated with Acacia cambagei and Atalaya hemiglauca growing in alluvial soils over and around sandstone and basalt.[8]
1 2 3 4 Maslin, Bruce R. "Acacia crombiei". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
1 2 "Acacia crombiei". World Wide Wattle. Western Australian Herbarium. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
↑ "Acacia crombiei". Australian Biological Resources Study. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
↑ J.L. Silcock, A.J. Healy and R.J. Fensham, (2014) Lost in time and space: re-assessment of conservation status in an arid-zone flora through targeted field survey, Australian Journal of Botany, 2014, 62, 674–688.
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