Acacia daviesii, commonly known as Timbertop wattle,[3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of Victoria, Australia. It is a shrub with pendulous branchlets, broadly elliptic to more or less circular phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and oblong, slightly curved pods.
Acacia daviesii is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 2.5m (8ft 2in), forms dense stands from root suckers, and has erect stems. Its branchlets are usually pendulous and covered with short, soft hairs. Its phyllodes are broadly elliptic to almost circular, 3–10mm (0.12–0.39in) long and 2–8mm (0.079–0.315in) wide with prominent glandular hairs on the edges and veins. There is a gland 0.4–1.2mm (0.016–0.047in) above the base of the phyllodes and one or two prominent veins. The flowers are borne in a spherical head in axils on a peduncle2.5–9mm (0.098–0.354in) long, each head with 12 to 22 golden yellow flowers. Flowering has been recorded in October, and the pods are oblong, slightly curved, 7–30mm (0.28–1.18in) long and 1.7–3.8mm (0.067–0.150in) wide.[3][4][5]
Timbertop wattle is endemic to a small area in central Victoria and is only found at a few of sites to the south east of Mansfield around the Howqua River and Mount Timbertop where it can form dense stands of plants only known to reproduce by root-suckering. It grows in dry open Eucalyptus woodland and forest.[4]
1 2 3 Reid, Jordan E.; Maslin, Bruce R. Kodela, Phillip G. (ed.). "Acacia daviesii". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. Retrieved 23 August 2025.
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