About Acacia baeuerlenii Maiden & R.T.Baker
Acacia baeuerlenii is a slender shrub that usually grows 1 to 4 meters (3 feet 3 inches to 13 feet 1 inch) tall. It has angled, ribbed, hairy branchlets. Its phyllodes are erect, narrowly elliptic, and range from straight to slightly curved. They measure 65 to 150 millimeters (2.6 to 5.9 inches) long and 4.5 to 13 millimeters (0.18 to 0.51 inches) wide, with a leathery, glabrous texture. Flowers are arranged in up to three spherical heads on a raceme that is 1 to 6 millimeters (0.039 to 0.236 inches) long, growing from a peduncle 7 to 16 millimeters (0.28 to 0.63 inches) long. Each flower head is 7 to 9 millimeters (0.28 to 0.35 inches) in diameter, holding 30 to 40 creamy-white flowers. Flowering takes place from June to August. After flowering, it produces leathery, narrowly oblong pods that grow up to 85 millimeters (3.3 inches) long and 6 to 8 millimeters (0.24 to 0.31 inches) wide. The pods are raised on opposite sides over alternating seeds. The seeds themselves are broadly oblong-elliptic, dark brown, 5.0 to 5.5 millimeters (0.20 to 0.22 inches) long, and have a thick, fleshy aril. This wattle species is distributed from near Helidon in south-east Queensland, south to Maclean, Red Rock, and the Gibraltar Range in northern New South Wales. It grows on sandy soil in forest habitats.
