Acacia glandulicarpa, commonly known as hairy-pod wattle,[3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is a dense, spreading, slightly sticky shrub with hairy branchlets, egg-shaped to elliptic phyllodes, spherical heads of bright yellow flowers and oblong, thinly leathery pods.
Acacia glandulicarpa is a dense, spreading, slightly sticky shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–2m (3ft 3in– 6ft 7in) and has hairy branchlets. Its phyllodes are egg-shaped, 5–13mm (0.20–0.51in) long and 3–6mm (0.12–0.24in) wide, the upper edge more or less straight and parallel to the branchlet, the lower edge convex and usually wavy. Each face of the phyllodes have one or two prominent veins. The flowers are borne in one or two spherical heads in axils on a slender, glabrouspeduncle4–10mm (0.16–0.39in), each of the many heads with eight to twenty bright yellow flowers. Flowering occurs from July to October, and the pods are narrowly oblong, up to 30mm (1.2in) long, about 5mm (0.20in) wide, thinly leathery and densely covered with glandular hairs. The seeds are oblong, about 3mm (0.12in) long with a curved aril.[3][4][5][6][7]
Taxonomy
Acacia glandulicarpa was first formally described by Felix Reader in The Victorian Naturalist from specimens he collected in "hilly mallee country, north-west from Dimboola" in 1895.[8][9] The specific epithet (glandulicarpa) means 'small-gland fruit', referring to the pods that are covered with glandular hairs.[10]
Most sites are in vulnerable situations such as roadsides, small crown land remnants or scattered within developed agricultural land, distributed on slopes in the transition zone between heavy and sandy soils.[11]
There are estimated to be about 6,000 – 12,000 plants among the roughly 100 sites, with the Little Desert National Park site accounting for about 25% of the total number. Most of the remaining sites are small, fragmented, and vulnerable to disturbance, within degraded and weedy vegetation, providing little opportunity to expand the population.[11]
Threats
Threats to the species include inappropriate fire regimes, weed invasion, lack of regeneration, erosion, agricultural chemical spray drift, roadworks, and grazing by introduced herbivores or domestic stock.[1]
Ecological requirements for the hairy-pod wattle have not yet been studied and identified. While it is known that seedlings can grow without fire or soil disturbance, information on regeneration has not been studied.[11]
123Maslin, Bruce R. "Acacia glandulicarpa". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. Retrieved 30 January 2026.
↑Costermans, Leon (2017). Native trees and shrubs of south-eastern Australia. p.309.
12Entwisle, Timothy J.; Maslin, Bruce R.; Cowan, Richard S.; Court, Arthur B. "Acacia glandulicarpa". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 30 January 2026.
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