Acacia imbricata, commonly known as Imbricate Wattle, is a shrub species that is endemic to South Australia

South Australia

South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...

. It grows to between 1 and 2 metres high and had phyllodes up to 16 mm long and 2 mm wide. The yellow globular flowerheads arise from the leaf axils in groups of 2 or singly.

The species was first formally described in 1858 by Victorian Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller

Ferdinand von Mueller

Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, KCMG was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist.-Early life:...

 in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae

Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae

Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae is a series of papers authored by the Victorian Government botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in which he published many of his approximately 2000 descriptions of new taxa of Australian plants. The papers were issued in 94 parts between 1858 and 1882 and published in...

. His description was based on plant material collected from Tumby Bay

Tumby Bay, South Australia

Tumby Bay is a coastal town situated on the Spencer Gulf, on the eastern coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, 45 km north of Port Lincoln...

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