Gold Coast
flora and fauna

A guide to the plants and animals that make our city one of the most biodiverse in Australia.
Phylum
MAGNOLIOPHYTA
Class
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
Family
MIMOSACEAE
Genus
Acacia
Species
perangusta
Has fauna
False
Mapping

Common Name
Eprapah Wattle
Alternate name
Is historical
False
QLD
NSW
EPBC
APC
ROTAP
ROTAP 3V
Comment
LGA significant
False
Stronghold population
False
Wildnet record
False
Museum listing
False
Introduced
False
Qld Census
False
Regionally significant/rationale
False
Restricted distribution/rationale
False
Abundance
Rare
Historical abundance
More widespread before European settlement no official records of this species on the Gold Coast
Endemicity
Overall distribution
Irregular
Local distribution
Scattered in open forest on sub-coastal metasediments
Known location
Mudgeeraba
Other locality
Riparian dependent
False
Wetland dependent
False
Forest dependent
False
Hollow dependent
False
Terrestrial
True
Estuarine
False
Marine
False
General ecology
Banks of lake, river, stream, water course, levees: +/-permanent water, waterhole.
Specific ecology
Habitat
Eucalypt Forest
Habitat comment
Restricted to banks of small streams
Threats
Land clearing for agriculture, and urban development, are the major threats to this species.
Management
Where ever possible field searches are required in an attempt to rediscover populations of this species in the field. Reservations of suitable populations should then be undertaken and the species established in botanic gardens.
Community type
Insufficient data
Migratory
False
Migration notes
Feeding status
Feeding strategy
Feeding substrate
Diet
Reproduction
Breeding season
Active period
Active season
Social group
Behaviour
Range
Biology
Growth form
Shrub
Description
Shrub/subShrub/undershrub to 6 m high. Flowers; 9-12 per head. Winter to early spring. Fruit; pod 7.5 x 0.5 cm
Taxonomy Comments
Species comments
Citations
Queensland Herbarium August 1999, Briggs and Leigh 1996, Stanley and Ross 1983-1989 1:376, Harden 2:328