Acacia ixodes
Acacia ixodes, commonly known as motherumbung, is a shrub belonging to the genus "Acacia" and the subgenus "Phyllodineae" that is native to parts of eastern Australia. Description. The shrub typically grows to a height of and has an erect and spreading habit. It has glabrous and resionous branchlets that are angled or flattened towards the apices. Like most species of "Acacia" it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The narrowly elliptic to linear or linear-oblanceolate shaped glabrous to resinous phyllodes are straight to slightly curved with a length of and a width of and has a prominent  midvein with faint lateral veins. It produces yellow flowers between August and November. The simple inflorescences occur singly in the axils and have spherical to ovoid shaped flower-heads with a diameter of containing 20 to 30 bright yellow flowers. Taxonomy. The species was first formally described by the botanist Leslie Pedley in 1980 as part of the work " A revision of Acacia Mill. in Queensland" as published in the journal "Austrobaileya". It was reclassified as "Racosperma ixodes" by Pedley in 1987 then transferred back to genus "Acacia" in 2001. The only other synonym is "Acacia gnidium" var. "latifolia". The  specific epithet is a reference to the sticky nature of new shoots and immature phyllodes. Distribution. The shrub has a wide distribution through central New South Wales extending into Queensland. In New South Wales the bulk of the population is situated between Dubbo to around Gilgandra and Mendooran