Fabaceae Lindl.
Acacia eriopoda Maiden & Blakely , legitimate, scientific
Maiden, J.H. & Blakely, W.F. (1927), Descriptions of fifty new species and six varieties of western and northern Australian Acacias, and notes on four other species. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 13: 27, t. xix. [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Meda (Dr. H. Basedow, No. 7, April, 1916). The type."
Maslin, B.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Mimosaceae (family and Acacia). Flora of Central Australia: 140 [secondary reference]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 85 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Mimosaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 302, Fig. 91B [secondary reference]
Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 130 [secondary reference]
common name: Broome Pindan Wattle [n/a]
  • Vernacular: irroogool (Bardi)
  • Vernacular: yirragulu (Yawuru)
Tindale, M.D. & Kodela, P.G. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11B: 190, Fig. 40N-P, Map 264 [secondary reference]
  • Type: Meda, NW Australia, between King Is. and Exmouth Gulf, W.A., Apr. 1916, H.Basedow 7 ; holo: NSW; iso: MEL n.v.
Maslin, B.R. (9 July 2001), Wattle - Acacias of Australia: - [secondary reference]
Pedley, L. (3 December 2003), A synopsis of Racosperma C.Mart. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Austrobaileya 6(3): 464 [basionym]
basionym of: Racosperma eriopodum (Maiden & Blakely) Pedley legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma eriopodum (Maiden & Blakely) Pedley legitimate
  • APC Comment: Hybrids are recorded between A. tumida and A. eriopoda (Maslin & McDonald in Nuytsia 10(3) 1996), and between A. eriopoda and A. trachycarpa [Flora of Australia 11B: 186, 190 (2001)]
  • APC Dist.: WA
Maslin, B.R. & van Leeuwen, S. (2008), Wattles of the Pilbara: 30-31 [secondary reference]
common name: Narrow leaf pindan wattle [n/a]
  • Etymology: "The botanical name of this wattle refers to the characteristically hairy, short stalks, which support the flowering spikes."
Maslin, B.R., van Leeuwen, S. & Reid, J. (2010), Wattles of the Pilbara: - [secondary reference]
common name: Broome Pindan Wattle [n/a] common name: Narrow Leaf Pindan Wattle [n/a]
  • Etymology: "The botanical name is derived from the Greek erio- (wool) and -poda (foot) and refers to the characteristically hairy, but short, peduncles."
  • Vernacular: Yirrakulu (Nyangumarta)