Hakea wattle | |
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Near Lake Cowal | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Subfamily: | Caesalpinioideae |
Clade: | Mimosoid clade |
Genus: | Acacia |
Species: | A. hakeoides
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Binomial name | |
Acacia hakeoides | |
Occurrence data from AVH | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Acacia hakeoides, known colloquially as hakea wattle, hakea-leaved wattle or western black wattle,[2] is a species of flowering plant endemic to southern Australia. It is a bushy shrub or tree with lance-shaped to linear phyllodes, racemes of bright golden-yellow flowers and more or less leathery to leathery to hard and brittle pods. It can be found growing in sandy soils in semiarid and Eucalyptus woodland in the region.