Acacia hilliana

Acacia hilliana, commonly known as Hill's tabletop wattle but also known as sandhill wattle and Hilltop wattle, is a shrub belonging to the genus "Acacia" and the subgenus "Juliflorae". It is native to northern Australia.
The Indigenous Australian peoples the Banyjima know it as "Bundaljingu" and the Nyangumarta know it as "Puntanungu".
Description.
The low spreading, viscid shrub typically grows to a height of . The obscurely ribbed branches normally spread horizontally giving the shrub a flat-topped appearance. The green to grey-green phyllodes are solitary or sometimes in clusters of two or three at the nodes. Each phyllode is in length and has a diameter of about and are straight or curve shallowly upward. It blooms from March to October producing golden yellow flowers. The simple inflorescences have an erect flower spike that is in length. Following flowering flat, thick and linear dark brown seed pods with a length of and a width of . The erect and woody pods are sticky with resin and have an odour resembling like citronella or lemon grass. The ellipsoidal dull to slightly shiny brown seeds are long.
Taxonomy.
The species was first formally described by the botanist Joseph Maiden in 1917 as part of the Alfred James Ewart and Olive Blanche Davies work "Appendix IV: Acacias of the Northern Territory. The Flora of the Northern Territory". It was reclassified as "Racosperma hillianum" by Leslie Pedley in 1987 then transferred back the genus "Acacia" in 2001.
The species name honours Gerald Freer Hill who collected the type specimen used by Maiden to prepare the description of the plant.
Distribution.
In Western Australia it is scattered throughout the Kimberley and Pilbara regions of Western Australia usually on rocky ranges and plateaus, among sand dunes and on sand plains growing in red sandy and stony soils. It is also found in the Northern Territory and extends into far western Queensland.