Kingdom Plantae Species A. ramulosa Rank Variety | Family Fabaceae Genus Acacia Order Fabales | |
Similar Acacia, Acacia brachystachya, Acacia pruinocarpa, Acacia citrinoviridis, Acacia murrayana | ||
Acacia ramulosa var. linophylla, commonly known as bowgada, wanderry mulga, horse mulga or sometimes wanyu, is a tree in the family Fabaceae. Widespread on loose red sand throughout south central Western Australia, it also occurs sporadically in South Australia.
Bowgada grows as a spreading shrub or low tree, up to four metres long and often wider than it is high. Like most Acacia species, it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. These are greyish green in colour, round in cross-section, and held almost vertically; they may be up to thirteen centimetres long and two millimetres in diameter. The flowers are yellow, and held in cylindrical clusters about two centimetres long. The pods are thick and woody, up to ten centimetres long and one centimetre wide, with deep fissures along their length.
Bowgada was formally named Acacia linophylla until 2001, when it was recognised as a variety of Acacia ramulosa.