''Acacia euthycarpa'' is a shrub or small tree species that is

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to southern Australia. It shares its common names of wallowa or reed-leaf wattle with a similar species ''

Acacia calamifolia ''Acacia calamifolia'', commonly known as wallowa or reed-leaf wattle, is a shrub or tree belonging to the genus '' Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Phyllodineae'' endemic to south eastern parts of Australia. Description The rounded shrub typically ...

''. It usually grows as a shrub to between 2 and 4 metres high, but certain forms may be small trees up to 10 metres high. The linear phyllodes are up to 10 cm long, dull green or grey green and have sharply pointed hooked tips. The globular golden flowerheads appear in 2-4 headed racemes between August and October, followed by curved seedpods that are up to 15 cm long. The taxon was first formally described by botanist

John McConnell Black John McConnell Black (28 April 1855 – 2 December 1951) was a Scottish botanist who emigrated to Australia in 1877 and eventually documented and illustrated thousands of flora in South Australia in the early 20th century. His publications assi ...

in ''Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia '' in 1923 as ''Acacia calamifolia'' var. ''euthycarpa''. It was subsequently promoted to species status by Black in 1945. It occurs from Mount Finke in

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and eastward to north-western

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. The species is a food plant for larvae of the Icilius blue butterfly.

References

euthycarpa Flora of South Australia Flora of Victoria (Australia) Fabales of Australia Taxa named by John McConnell Black {{Australia-rosid-stub