Acacia anaticeps, also known as duck-headed wattle,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern Western Australia.

The flowers are arranged in racemes or panicles on the ends of branches or in leaf axils, on a glabrous peduncle 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) long.

[1][2][3] Acacia anaticeps was first formally described in 1972 by Mary Douglas Tindale in Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, from specimens collected near Wallal Downs homestead by Fred Lullfitz in 1970.

[5] This species of wattle is endemic to arid areas in the Kimberley and Pilbara regions of Western Australia where it is often situated on sand dunes and pindan country growing in red sandy or sandy-loamy soils.

[6] The range of the plant extends from the northern boundary of the Pilbara region northwards to around Broome in the north west to around Kumpupintil Lake and Lake Gregory in the east and is sometimes found on heavier, sometimes saline, soils.