Acacia intricata

Acacia intricata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a dense, compact, intricate shrub with sessile, egg-shaped, rigid, sharply pointed phyllodes, spherical heads of bright golden yellow flowers and curved to coiled pods.

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Acacia intricata is a dense, compact, intricate and prickly shrub that typically grows to a height of 15–50 cm (5.9–19.7 in) and sometimes forms prostrate mounds. Its end branches are ascending to erect, short, straight, rigid, somewhat spiny and sometimes covered with a white, powdery bloom. Its phyllodes are sessile, more or less horizontal, usually egg-shaped to broadly egg-shaped, usually 2–4 mm (0.079–0.157 in) long and 1–3 mm (0.039–0.118 in) wide, rigid, thick and sharply pointed with one vein on each side. There are stipules at the base of the phyllodes but fall off early. The flowers are borne in two spherical heads in axils on peduncles 1.5–4 mm (0.059–0.157 in) long, each head with 7 to 13 showy, bright golden yellow flowers. Flowering occurs from July to September, and the pods are curved to openly once-coiled, up to 26 mm (1.0 in) long and 2.0–2.5 mm (0.079–0.098 in) wide. The seeds are 2.7–2.9 mm (0.11–0.11 in) long, often mottled with a white aril, ½ or more the length of the seed.