Acacia cochlocarpa

Acacia cochlocarpa is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae. It is native to Western Australia.

The sprawling shrub typically grows to a height of 0.3 to 0.7 m but reach a height of 1.5 m and produces yellow flowers. The branchlets are slightly flexuose with persistent stipules. It has erect, narrowly oblong-elliptic shaped and incurved phyllodes. The phyllodes are 2.5 to 7.5 cm in length with a width of 3 to 6 mm. There are two simple inflorescences per axil. The flower heads are subglobular to short-cylindrical with a length of 5 to 10 mm and a diameter of 5 to 6 mm. After flowering tightly spirally or irregularly coiled seed pods form containing glossy mottled round to oblong seeds that are 1.5 to 2.5 mm.

It has a scattered distribution in the Wheatbelt of Western Australia where it grows in sandy, clay gravelly soils often around laterite. Found in areas around Watheroo and Manmanning as a part of sandy heathland communities.

There are two known subspecies:
 * Acacia cochlocarpa Meisn. subsp. cochlocarpa
 * Acacia cochlocarpa subsp. velutinosa Maslin & A.R.Chapman

A cochlocarpa is similar in appearance and closely related to Acacia lirellata and is also closely related to Acacia tetraneura.