About Acacia juncifolia Benth.
Acacia juncifolia Benth. is a shrub or tree that typically grows to 3 metres (9.8 ft) in height. It has slender, glabrous, reddish-brown, more or less terete branchlets, and bark that ranges in colour from dark grey to blackish or brownish grey. Like most Acacia species, it has phyllodes instead of true leaves. These evergreen, glabrous, rigid phyllodes are linear in shape, straight to slightly curved, measuring 7 to 20 cm (2.8 to 7.9 in) in length and around 1 mm (0.039 in) in width, with a reasonably prominent midvein. It blooms between June and November. Its simple inflorescences grow singly on racemes with a 1 to 2 mm (0.039 to 0.079 in) long axis, and occur either singly or in pairs in the axils, with spherical flower-heads that hold 20 to 30 light golden to deep golden flowers. After flowering, it forms seed pods that are prominently raised over each seed. The glabrous, dark red-brown pods are firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, reaching up to 10 cm (3.9 in) in length and 3 to 4 mm (0.12 to 0.16 in) in width. Seeds are arranged longitudinally inside the pods; the dull, mottled yellow and black seeds have an oblong-elliptic shape and are 3 to 4.5 mm (0.12 to 0.18 in) long. This species is native to eastern Australia: its range spans from southern Queensland around Port Clinton in the north, extending into New South Wales as far south as around Glenbrook and reaching around 500 km (310 mi) inland. In New South Wales, it extends north from Glenbrook and reaches as far west as Gilgandra. It most commonly grows as part of dry sclerophyll forest and woodland communities, and grows well in sandy soils.
