Acacia manipularis
Acacia manipularis is a shrub of the genus "Acacia" and the subgenus "Plurinerves" that is endemic to north western Australia. Description. The low spreading viscid shrub typically grows to a height of and has terete, glabrous, resinous and obscurely ribbed branchlets. Like most species of "Acacia" it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The evergreen phyllodes growing in clusters of two to six per node and have threadlike appearance and are straight to slightly curved. The flexible and glabrous phyllodes are about in length and have a diameter of around and are superficially nerveless. It blooms in July  and produces yellow flowers. Taxonomy. The species was first formally described by the botanists Richard Sumner Cowan and Bruce Maslin in 1995 as a part of the work " Acacia Miscellany. Miscellaneous taxa of northern and eastern Australia of Acacia section Plurinerves (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae)" as published in the journal "Nuytsia". It was reclassified as "Racosperma manipulare" by Leslie Pedley in 2003 then transferred back to genus "Acacia" in 2006. Distribution. It is native to an area in the Northern Territory and the Kimberley region of Western Australia where it is commonly situated on shale plateaux growing in rocky, skeletal soils. It  has a limited range from between Mount House Station and Tableland Station where it is usually a part of tall shrubland communities associated with "Eucalyptus brevifolia" and species of "Melaleuca".