Acacia megalantha is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae that is endemic to northern Australia.
The shrub typically growing to a height of 1m (03feet) but can reach as high as 4m (13feet). It has light grey bark and flattened branches towards the apices. The coriaceous and rigid phyllodes have a narrowly elliptic shape and are often oblique. Phyllodes are 5to in length and 14to wide usually with three prominent longitudinal nerves.[1] It flowers in April producing yellow flowers. The flower spikes are 1.4to in length covered in fine golden flowers. After flowering pale and thick woody seed pods that are flat and straight-sided. Each pod is 3to in length and 7.5to wide. the light brown seeds within have an orbicular to broadly elliptic shape and a length of 4.8to.[1]
The species was first formally described by the botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1859 as part of the work Contributiones ad Acaciarum Australiae Cognitionem published in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Botany. It was later reclassified as Racosperma megalanthum in 1987 by Leslie Pedley and transferred back to the genus Acacia in 2001.[2]
It is native to central Queensland around Mount Isa, through Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory[1] and the Kimberley region of Western Australia and grows in sandy soils on sandstone, around boulders and on rocky slopes.