Acacia abbatiana is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Mount Abbott in Queensland. It has linear phyllodes, flowers arranged in a spike about in diameter, and a pod up to long.
Acacia abbtiana is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to about, with fibrous bark and the phyllodes only on the upper parts of the stem. The phyllodes are linear, straight, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in spikes wide, two or three in each leaf axil, and about in diameter on Peduncle long. The sepals are cup-shaped, long and the petals long with stamens long. Flowering has been observed in August, and the fruit is a pod up to long and wide containing up to 8 seeds.[1] [2]
Acacia abbatiana was first described in 1999 by Leslie Pedley in the journal Astrobaileya from a specimen collected by Anthony Bean on Mount Abbott, about west of Bowen in 1992.[3] The specific epithet (abbatiana) means "on Abbott", indicating Mount Abbott, the only known locality for this species".
This wattle species is only known from Mount Abbott in central Queensland where it grows in heath on slopes in soil derived from granite.
Acacia abbatiana is listed as of "least concern" by the Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science.[4]