Acacia loderi

Acacia loderi, known colloquially as nelia or nealie, is a species of "Acacia" native to Australia.
Joseph Maiden described "Acacia loderi" in 1920 and it still bears its original name. It was named after its collector, assistant forester at Broken Hill A.C. Loder who collected it at Yancowinnia near Broken Hill in November 1907. The common name "nelia" and its former variants "nealie" and "neelya" are derived from the Ngyiyambaa word "nhiil'i" for the species.
"Acacia loderi" grows as a large shrub or small tree high, with an erect or spreading habit. The bark is grey. Like all wattles it has leaf-like structures known as phyllodes instead of leaves. These are pale grey-green to green and very narrow and long, measuring in length by wide. The bright yellow flowers appear in spring (August to October).
"Acacia loderi" is found in inland southeastern Australia, mainly in far western New South Wales, from White Cliffs in the north of the tip of northwestern Victoria in the south, east to Hillston and west through the Darling River basin and Broken Hill into eastern South Australia, growing in colonized brown or red soils in mostly flat country. It forms a dominant component of "Acacia loderi" shrubland, where it is found with such trees as black oak ("Casuarina pauper"), inland rosewood ("Alectryon oleifolius") and leopardwood ("Flindersia maculosa"), and an understory of chenopods and grasses.
"Acacia loderi" shrubland has been classified as an Endangered Ecological Community by the New South Wales Government. Key threats include clearing and excessive grazing by livestock.