Acacia grasbyi, commonly known as miniritchie, is a shrub or tree in the family Fabaceae that is endemic to parts of arid western and central Australia.
These are often twisted, and are always covered in distinctive red to brown coloured minni ritchi bark,[3] which peels in small curly flakes.
The species was first formally described by the botanist Joseph Maiden in 1917 as part of the work Notes on Acacia, No.
— extra-tropical Western Australia (including descriptions of new species) as published in the Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales.
[3] In Western Australia it has a scattered throughout the Mid West, northern Wheatbelt and Gascoyne regions as well as smaller populations in the Pilbara and northern Goldfields regions where it is often situated on rocky rises and hills, stony or clay flats as well as undulating sandplains where it grows in sandy red lateritic soils[1] often as a part of Acacia scrubland communities.