Acacia sporadica, also commonly known as the pale hickory wattle,[1] is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae that is native to a small area in Victoria
The root suckering shrub typically grows to a height of around and has glabrous branchlets. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The evergreen blue-green and glabrous phyllodes have an asymmetric obovate to oblanceolate shape that can sometimes be almost elliptic. The phyllodes have a length of and a width of and have a prominent midrib and marginal nerves.[2]
The species was first formally described by the botanist Neville Walsh in 2004 as part of the work Two new wattles endemic to Victoria as published in the journal Muelleria.[1]
It has a disjunct distribution from around the Howqua River, and Carboor East and in areas close to Taradale where it is often situated on rocky hills as a part of woodlands or Eucalyptus forest communities.[2]