Acacia enterocarpa
Acacia enterocarpa, commonly known as jumping jack wattle, is a shrub species that is endemic to eastern Australia. Description The shrub has a dense spreading habit and typically grows to a height of less than . It has ribbed, red to brown coloured branchlets that are asperulate. The pungent, rigid, glabrous, green phyllodes are subsessile and patent to inclined. The phyllodes are straight to shallowly recurved and have a length of and a width of and have 10 to 12 distant raised nerves. It blooms between May and October and produces simple inflorescences simple in groups of one to four situated in the axils. The spherical flower-heads have a diameter of and contain over 20 bright yellow flowers. The brown undulate seed pods that form after flowering have yellow margins. The coriaceous seed pods have a length of around and a width of . The dull dark brown to black coloured seeds in the pods have an oblong to elliptic shape and are around in length. Taxonomy The species was first formally described by the botanist R.V.Smith in 1957 as part of the work A remarkable new Acacia for Victoria (The "Jumping-Jack" Wattle) as published in The Victorian Naturalist. It