About Acacia amblygona A.Cunn. ex Benth.
Acacia amblygona is a sprawling, sometimes prostrate shrub that usually grows 0.4 to 1 meter (1 foot 4 inches to 3 feet 3 inches) tall, with usually hairy branchlets. Its phyllodes are sessile, ranging from egg-shaped to lance-shaped or elliptic. They measure 8 to 15 millimeters (0.31 to 0.59 inches) long and 2 to 4 millimeters (0.079 to 0.157 inches) wide, and taper to a sharply-pointed tip. The flowers are golden-yellow, arranged in groups of 10 to 18 in a more or less spherical head 4.0 to 6.5 millimeters (0.16 to 0.26 inches) wide, borne on a peduncle 6 to 12 millimeters (0.24 to 0.47 inches) long. Flowering occurs from July to October. The seed pods are curved, coiled or twisted, and constricted between the seeds. They are 30 to 70 millimeters (1.2 to 2.8 inches) long and 3 to 5 millimeters (0.12 to 0.20 inches) wide, and contain seeds that are 3 to 7 millimeters (0.12 to 0.28 inches) long and 3 to 5 millimeters (0.12 to 0.20 inches) wide. This species, commonly called fan wattle, grows in forest or mallee communities, often on stony soils. It is native to south-coastal Western Australia near Ravensthorpe in the Esperance Plains bioregion. In eastern Australia, it occurs in coastal and inland areas of New South Wales north of Lake Cargelligo, and extends north to Expedition Range and Peak Downs in Queensland.
