They are easily confused and used to be regarded as the same species.. I have a lot of trouble telling them apart. It was apparently initially thought to be a hybrid between retinodes and saligna.
Lucidcentral.org gives a useful distinction between retinodes, provincialis and uncifolia:
Lucidcentral.org gives a useful distinction between retinodes, provincialis and uncifolia:
A member of the ‘Acacia microbotrya group’ most closely related to A. uncifolia and A. retinodes, differing from the latter in smooth, grey bark, often pruinose branchlets and phyllodes that are uncrowded on stems, more numerous flowers per head that are pale yellow to golden and broader pods