Acacia atrox
Acacia atrox, commonly known as Myall Creek wattle, is a shrub belonging to the genus "Acacia" and the subgenus "Phyllodineae" that is endemic to a small area in New South Wales. Description. The shrub has a dense and multi-branched habit and typically grows to a height of and is able to spread and create thickets by suckering. The light green sessile phyllodes have a quadrangular shape and have a yellow nerve at apex of each angle. The phyllodes have a length of and a width of . The rudimentary inflorescences are found on one or two branched racemes  with an axes that has a length of . The spherical flower-heads globular have a diameter of and contain 17 to 22 flowers. Taxonomy. The species was first formally described by the botanist Phillip Kodela in 2001 as part of the work "Acacia atrox (Fabaceae: Mimosoideae), a new rare species from the North Western Slopes, New South Wales" as published in the journal "Telopea. It was reclassified as "Racosperma atrox" by Leslie Pedley in 2003 thentransferred back o the genus "Acacia" in 2011. Distribution. It has a limited distribution around the Inverell area in the north western slopes of New  South Wales where it is found on slopes and low hills growing in clay soils over basalt, on basalt in cleared areas or as part of open well grassed "Eucalyptus" woodland communities.