Acacia ixiophylla
Acacia ixiophylla, also known as sticky leaved wattle, is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic to coastal parts of eastern Australia. Description The shrub typically grows to a height of and has a spreading habit. It has hairy often viscid branchlets. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The patent, leathery and evergreen phyllodes are sparsely to moderately densely haired and have a narrowly oblong to elliptic shape with a length of and a width of and have three to seven raised distant main nerves. It blooms between August and October and produces simple inflorescences that occur in groups of two or three on axillary axes with a length of and has spherical flower-heads with a diameter of containing 20 to 35 yellow to deep yellow flowers. Taxonomy The species was first formally described by the botanist George Bentham in 1842 as part of the William Jackson Hooker work Notes on Mimoseae, with a synopsis of species as published in the London Journal of Botany. It was reclassified as Racosperma ixiophyllum by Leslie Pedley in 1987 then transferred back to genus Acacia in 2001. The only other synonyms