Acacia exigua

I. M. Turner

Muntalkura wattle

Fabaceae Edible: Seeds

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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The New York Botanical Garden

Summary

Source: Wikipedia

Acacia exigua, commonly known as muntalkura wattle, and as jonanyong or jananyung by the Kurrama people, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern Western Australia. It is a shrub or tree with fibrous grey bark, thread-like, slightly curved to s-shaped phyllodes, spikes of light golden yellow flowers and linear, firmly papery pods.

Description

A shrub or small tree. It grows 5 m tall. There are prickles along the stem. The leaves are twice divided and there are 8-18 pairs of pinnae. There are up to 50 pairs of pinnules on each pinnae. The flowers are yellow. They are in large clusters at the ends of branches. The pods are flattened.