Acacia beadleana

Acacia beadleana is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the Gibraltar Range National Park in northern New South Wales. It is a spreading shrub with hairy branchlets and straight to curved, flat phyllodes, spherical or oblong heads of flowers arranged singly in axils, and leathery oblong pods up to 60 mm (2.4 in) long.

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Acacia beadleana is a spreading, lignotuberous shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.4–2.5 m (1 ft 4 in – 8 ft 2 in) and has hairy branchlets. Its phyllodes are often crowded, flat, straight to curved, 5–13 mm (0.20–0.51 in) long and 0.6–1.4 mm (0.024–0.055 in) wide with a hooked tip on the end. The flowers are borne in a spherical head in axils on a peduncle 6–16 mm (0.24–0.63 in) long, each head with 32 to 46 bright golden-yellow flowers. Flowering occurs most months with a peak from December to January, and the pods are oblong, leathery , dark brown and glabrous, 20–60 mm (0.79–2.36 in) long and mostly 7–10.5 mm (0.28–0.41 in) wide. The seeds are oblong or egg-shaped, 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long with a short aril on the end.

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