Acacia clandullensis, commonly known as gold dust wattle, is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae. It is endemic to New South Wales.
The open pendulous shrub typically grows to a height of 1to.[1] It has slightly ridged densely hairy branchlets that become terete. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The evergreen phyllodes are quite crowded and have a circular to broadly elliptic or obovate shape with a length of and a width of . The light gren phyllodes are sparsely hairy when young and have a subprominent midvein.[2]
The species was first formally described by the botanists Barry Conn and Terry Tame in 1996 as part of the work A revision of the Acacia uncinata group (Fabaceae-Mimosoideae) as published in Australian Systematic Botany. It was reclassified as Racosperma clandullense in 2003 by Leslie Pedley then transferred back to genus Acacia in 2006.[3] It is quite similar in appearance to Acacia sertiformis.[2]
It is mostly found in the areas around Clandulla and Glen Davis growing at higher altitudes in stony sandy or clay-loam soils where it is usually part of open Eucalyptus rossii woodland communities.[1]