Acacia fuscaneura
Acacia fuscaneura, commonly known as sooty wattle, is a tree belonging to the genus "Acacia" and the subgenus "Juliflorae". It is native to arid areas of central Australia. Description. The tree can grow to a height of . The young branchlets are densely haired with the hairs obscuring ribs. It has straight and flat evergreen phyllodes that are around in length and wide that are also covered in hair while still immature. It flowers in early summer between November and December producing solitary axillary inflorescences with long cylindrically shaped yellow flowerheads. The seed pods that form after flowering are  dark brown in colour and can have a purplish tinge with seeds that are normally narrowly winged. It is very similar in appearance to "Acacia aneura" var. "aneura" and also strongly resembles the more widespread "Acacia paraneura". Taxonomy. The species was first formally described by the botanists Bruce Maslin and J.E.Reid in 2012 as part of the work "A taxonomic revision of Mulga (Acacia aneura and its close relatives: Fabaceae) in Western Australia" as published in the journal "Nuytsia". Two synonyms are known; "Acacia aneura" var. "fuliginea" and "Racosperma aneurum" var. "fuligineum". Distribution. In Western Australia it is found scattered  across a large area in the Wheatbelt, Mid West and Goldfields regions of Western Australia. It is also found through interior areas of South Australia.