{{short description|Species of plant}} {{Speciesbox |image = Acacia loderi, UNSW Fowlers Gap Arid Zone Research Station, New South Wales imported from iNaturalist photo 361245036.jpg |genus = Acacia |species = loderi |authority = Maiden |range_map = Acacia loderiDistMap549.png |range_map_caption = Occurrence data from AVH }}
'''''Acacia loderi''''', known colloquially as '''nelia''' or '''nealie''', is a species of ''Acacia'' native to Australia.<ref name=apni>{{APNI | name = ''Acacia loderi'' Maiden | id = 11424}}</ref>
Joseph Maiden described ''Acacia loderi'' in 1920 and it still bears its original name.<ref name=apni/> It was named after its collector, assistant forester at Broken Hill A.C. Loder who collected it at Yancowinnia near Broken Hill in November 1907.<ref name="floransw">{{NSW Flora Online|genus=Acacia |species=loderi|author = P.G. Kodela}}</ref><ref name="FoA">{{cite book|author1=Orchard, A. E. |author2=Wilson, Annette |title=Flora of Australia:Mimosaceae|publisher=CSIRO Publishing|location=Collingwood, Victoria|date=2001|volume=11|pages=107|isbn=978-0-643-06720-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iXvr5GjJ4kIC&dq=%22Acacia+loderi%22&pg=PA107}}</ref> The common name ''nelia'' and its former variants ''nealie'' and ''neelya'' are derived from the Ngiyambaa word ''{{lang|wyb|nhiil'i}}'' for the species.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Robert M. W. Dixon |author2=Bruce Moore |title=Australian Aboriginal words in English: their origin and meaning|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2006|pages=123|isbn=978-0-19-554073-4}}</ref>
''Acacia loderi'' grows as a large shrub or small tree {{convert|3|–|8|m|ft|abbr=on}} high, with an erect or spreading habit. The bark is grey. Like all wattles it has leaf-like structures known as phyllodes instead of leaves. These are pale grey-green to green and very narrow and long, measuring {{convert|5|–|11|cm|in|abbr=on}} in length by {{convert|0.9|-|2.5|mm|in|abbr=on}} wide. The bright yellow flowers appear in spring (August to October).<ref name="floransw"/>
''Acacia loderi'' is found in inland southeastern Australia, mainly in far western New South Wales, from White Cliffs in the north of the tip of northwestern Victoria in the south, east to Hillston and west through the Darling River basin and Broken Hill into eastern South Australia, growing in colonized brown or red soils in mostly flat country.<ref name="FoA"/> It forms a dominant component of ''Acacia loderi'' shrubland, where it is found with such trees as black oak (''Casuarina pauper''), inland rosewood (''Alectryon oleifolius'') and leopardwood (''Flindersia maculosa''), and an understory of chenopods and grasses.<ref name="eec">{{cite web|url=http://www.threatenedspecies.environment.nsw.gov.au/tsprofile/profile.aspx?id=10017|title=''Acacia loderi'' shrublands - profile|author=Department of Environment and Conservation (NSW)|date=1 September 2005|work=Threatened Species website|publisher=New South Wales Government|accessdate=4 January 2012|archive-date=23 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110423032958/http://threatenedspecies.environment.nsw.gov.au/tsprofile/profile.aspx?id=10017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
''Acacia loderi'' shrubland has been classified as an Endangered Ecological Community by the New South Wales Government. Key threats include clearing and excessive grazing by livestock.<ref name="eec"/>
The Wiradjuri people of New South Wales use the seeds of the species to make flour for bread, the fibrous bark for making string and rope, and the resin is eaten and can be used to make glue.<ref name=wpu>{{cite book |editor1-last=Williams |editor1-first=Alice |editor2-last=Sides |editor2-first=Tim |date=2008 |title=Wiradjuri Plant Use in the Murrumbidgee Catchment |publisher=Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Authority |page=17 |isbn=978-0-7347-5856-9}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
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loderi Category:Fabales of Australia Category:Plants described in 1920 Category:Flora of New South Wales Category:Flora of South Australia Category:Flora of Victoria (state)