Acacia eremophila is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is native to Western Australia.
The dense shrub typically grows to a height of 0.4 to 2 metres (1 to 7 ft) and has a rounded habit.[1] The straight and erect phyllodes are patent to erect. The phyllodes are 2 to 11 centimetres (0.8 to 4.3 in) in length with a diameter of 0.6 to 1.5 millimetres (0.02 to 0.06 in).[2]
It blooms from July to October[1] producing simple inflorescences with globular heads with a diameter of 3 to 4 mm (0.12 to 0.16 in) containing 10 to 25 yellow flowers.[2]
After flowering linear seed pods that are raised over and constricted between each seed that are 2 to 5 cm (0.8 to 2.0 in) in length and 1.5 to 3 mm (0.06 to 0.12 in) wide. The dark brown seeds with an elliptic to oblong-ovate shape.[2]
The species was first formally described by the botanist William Vincent Fitzgerald in 1912 is the work New West Australian Plants published in the Journal of Botany, British and Foreign.[3]
There are two varieties:
A. eremophila closely resembles Acacia densiflora.[2]
It is native to an area in the Wheatbelt and the Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia.[1]
Acacia eremophila is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is native to Western Australia.
