''Acacia bracteolata'' 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 ...

'' and the subgenus ''Phyllodineae'' endemic to Western Australia. The spreading shrub typically grows to a height of . The branchlets are hairy to villous and have long stipules. The asymmetric

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 have a narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate shape with a length of and a width of . It blooms in August and produces yellow flowers. The rudimentary inflorescences mostly occur on two-headed racemes that have an axes with a length of less than . The spherical flower-heads can have an obloid shape and have a diameter of containing 19 to 25 lemon yellow coloured flowers. The seed pods that form after flowering have a bow shape with a length of up to and a width of . The dull black oblong-elliptic shaped seeds inside the pods are around in length. It is native to an area in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia where it is found east of Esperance growing in granitic sandy soils. The shrub occurs from around

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in the north to

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in the south and are often part of shrubland or low mallee communities.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q15289734 bracteolata Acacias of Western Australia Plants described in 1999 Taxa named by Bruce Maslin

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