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Synonyms: Acacia graveolens Lodd. APNI*

Description: Shrub to 6 m high, often spindly, 1- or 2-stemmed with sparse crown.

Phyllodes usually elliptic or narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, straight to slightly curved, (4-) 5–7 (-11) cm long, (5-) 7–20 (-30) mm wide, with 2 longitudinal veins (the veins equally prominent or the adaxial (upper) one slightly less pronounced), dotted with resin glands, lateral veins obscure or quite evident; 1 gland usually at distal end of pulvinus.

Inflorescences simple, 1–6 in axil of phyllodes or rarely on an axis 1–3 mm long; peduncles 3–5 (-11) mm long, glabrous or hairy; heads globose, 20–40-flowered, 5–10 mm diam., pale yellow.

Pods straight to slightly curved, ± straight-sided to barely constricted between seeds, sometimes more deeply constricted between some seeds, 4–8 cm long, 3–5 mm wide, firmly papery to thinly leathery, glabrous or ± hairy especially along margins; seeds longitudinal; funicle expanded towards seed.

Flowering: August–November.

Distribution and occurrence: Mount Werong area and scattered occurrences south to Tumut State Forest.

Grows often in tall eucalypt forest.
NSW subdivisions: SC, CT, ST, SWS
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. Tas.

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The name 'graveolens' is Latin meaning strong-smelling. This taxon is very variable (e.g. phyllode width), but distinguished from other varieties of Acacia leprosa occurring in New South Wales by its phyllodes having 2 longitudinal veins. It has previously been treated as a variant of A. verniciflua (which is also usually 2-veined), but these taxa most obviously differ in branchlet features. Atypical plants and hybrids between A. leprosa varieties occur in the Mount Werong area.