Acacia bivenosa

Acacia bivenosa is a glabrous, bushy, rounded or spreading shrub that typically grows to high and wide. The bark is smooth and light grey. Its phyllodes are narrowly elliptic, oblong or egg-shaped to lance-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, mostly long and wide. The flowers are borne in six or seven spherical heads in racemes on a peduncles long. Each head is about in diameter and has mostly 16 to 23 rich golden-yellow. Flowering occurs between May and October, mostly between July and August, flowers It produces yellow flowers from April to November. The simple inflorescences have globular heads with a diameter of about containing 16 to 32 rich golden flowers. The seed pods are more or less erect, up to long and wide and crust like to more or less woody, somewhat like a string of beads, containing glossy, dark brown to black seeds with a red or orange aril. ==Taxonomy and naming==

Acacia bivenosa was first formally described in 1825 by the botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in his Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis. The specific epithet (bivenosa) means 'full of two veins', referring to the phyllodes. A group of Acacia known as the A. bivenosa group of plants with similar features contains 12 species including; A. ampliceps, A. bivenosa, A. cupularis, A. didyma, A. ligulata, A. rostellifera, A. salicina, A. sclerosperma, A. startii, A. telmica, A. tysonii and A. xanthina. ==Distribution and habitat==

Two-nerved wattle is widespread in arid areas of northern Australia. It is common in the Carnarvon, Central Kimberley, Central Ranges, Dampierland, Gascoyne, Great Sandy Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Ord Victoria Plain, Pilbara, Tanami and Yalgoobio bioregions of Western Australia and the Northern Territory. ==Conservation status==

Acacia bivenosa is listed as of "least concern" by the Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science. ==Uses==

The bush can be heavily grazed by stock, especially as a seedling. Indigenous Australians used to find edible grubs from around the roots. It is often used in land rehabilitation as a primary colonizer. ==See also==