Acacia colletioides

Wait-a-while
In Murray-Sunset National Park
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Acacia
Species:
A. colletioides
Binomial name
Acacia colletioides
Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms
  • Acacia colletioides Benth. var. colletioides
  • Acacia colletioides var. typica Domin nom. inval., nom. nud.
  • Acacia nyssophylla F.Muell. p.p.
  • Racosperma colletioides (Benth.) Pedley

Acacia colletioides, commonly known as wait-a-while, pin bush or spinebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is a rigid shrub or tree with sessile, straight to more or less curved and terete phyllodes, more or less spherical heads of bright yellow flowers, and linear, thinly leathery pods.