''Acacia ataxiphylla'', commonly known as the large-fruited Tammin wattle, is a shrub belonging to the genus ''

Acacia ''Acacia'', commonly known as the wattles or acacias, is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa and Australasia. The genus na ...

''. It is native to Western Australia. The shrub typically grows to a height of .

Phyllode Phyllodes are modified petioles or leaf stems, which are leaf-like in appearance and function. In some plants, these become flattened and widened, while the leaf itself becomes reduced or vanishes altogether. Thus the phyllode comes to serve the ...

s are continuous with branchlets but without forming cauline wings. They are narrowly linear and straight to shallowly curved or shallowly sigmoid in shape. Typically they are long and wide and shallowly recurved to uncinate at the apex. It produces white-cream flowers from June to January. The inflorescences are simple with one per axil and with peduncles long. They have hairy heads globular to slightly obloid containing 15 to 20 flowers. Flowers are 5- merous with united sepals and petals long. Reddish-brown pods form later, they are narrowly oblong and curved up to long and wide The shrub grows in sand, gravel, clay or loam, and has a disjunct scattered population through the Wheatbelt and Great Southern regions of Western Australia. It grows over laterite in low heath, shrub mallee and low Eucalyptus woodlands. Two varieties are recognized: *''Acacia ataxiphylla'' var. ''ataxiphylla'' *''Acacia ataxiphylla'' var. ''muricata''

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q15289828 ataxiphylla Acacias of Western Australia Plants described in 1855 Taxa named by George Bentham

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