Acacia aemula

Acacia aemula is an openly-branched, often protrate, rush-like subshrub that typically grows to a height of 20–40 cm (7.9–15.7 in) and has cylindrical branchlets. Its few phyllodes are similar to its branchlets, cylindrical to more or less flat and linear, 10–110 mm (0.39–4.33 in) long and 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) wide. There are stipules 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) long at the base of the phyllodes. The flowers are borne in 1 or 2 spherical heads on peduncles 5–15 mm (0.20–0.59 in) long, each head with 6 to 11 cream-coloured to golden-yellow flowers. Flowering occurs from about May to June and the pods are reddish-brown, paper-like to crusty, 30–60 mm (1.2–2.4 in) long and 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) wide containing seeds 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) wide with a conical aril.

This acacia is found along the south coast of Western Australia in the Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance regions extending from around Albany east to Cape Arid National Park where it grows among granite outcrops and flats near creeks in sandy soils.