Acacia rhetinocarpa

Acacia rhetinocarpa, commonly known as neat wattle or resin wattle, is a shrub belonging to the genus "Acacia" and the subgenus "Phyllodineae" native to southern Australia. It was listed as vulnerable under the "Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999" in 2013.
Description.
The resinous shrub typically grows to a height of and has sparsely hairy and terete branchlets that are yellowish to light brown in colour that become darker toward the base. It has inequilaterally obtriangular-obovate to widely obovate-obdeltate green phyllodes.
It blooms between August and October but can appear as late as March. It produces simple inflorescences of spherical flower-heads containing 12 to 15 bright yellow flowers. The straight or curved brown seed pods that form after flowering are linear with a length and a width of . The slightly shiny brown seeds with the pods are arranged longitudinally and have an oblong shape with a length of .
The shrub is thought to be wind-pollinated and ants thought to be the main agent of seed dispersal (myrmechory) while germination is most likely to result from land disturbance or fire.
Taxonomy.
The species was first formally described by the botanist John McConnell Black in 1920 as part of the work "Additions to the flora of South Australia" as published in the "Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia". It was reclassified as "Racosperma rhetinocarpum" by Leslie Pedley in 2003 and transferred back to genus "Acacia" in 2005.
The specific epithet is taken from the Greek words "rhetine" meaning "resin" or "gum" and "karpos" meaning "fruit" in reference to the resinous nature of the seed pods.
Distribution.
It is endemic to some small areas on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia near Arno Bay extending to the Yorke Peninsula near Curramulka and then between the Gilbert River and Monarto where it is found growing in calcareous sandy or sandy-loamy soils as a part of open scrubland communities that are dominated by "Eucalyptus" species. The total area over which the shrub is found has been calculated as .