Acacia depressa

Acacia depressa, commonly known as echidna wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a small area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is a dense, prostrate, prickly shrub with more or less glabrous, bipinnate leaves, spherical heads of light golden yellow flowers and narrowly oblong, firmly papery pods.

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Acacia depressa is a dense, prostrate, prickly, mat-forming shrub that typically grows to 5 cm (0.2 ft) high and 50 cm (20 in) wide and has spiny branchlets with soft hairs pressed against the surface. The leaves are bipinnate and more or less glabrous with one pair of pinnae 2–4 mm (0.079–0.157 in) long, each pinna with 3 to 4 pairs of narrowly oblong to oblong pinnules 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) long and about 1 mm (0.039 in) wide. The flowers are borne in a spherical head in axils on a peduncle 10–20 mm (0.39–0.79 in) long, each head 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) in diameter with 12 to 15 light golden yellow flowers. Flowering occurs in December and January, and the pods are narrowly oblong, 10–20 mm (0.39–0.79 in) long, about 3 mm (0.12 in) wide and more or less firmly papery.