Acacia xanthina, commonly known as white stemmed wattle, is a coastal shrub or small tree in the family Fabaceae that is endemic to Western Australia.

The flower heads are bright yellow and spherical, and occur in group of six to nine, but sometimes up to fifteen.

[2] Acacia xanthina was first collected in 1839 by James Drummond, and described by George Bentham in 1842.

It is native to an area on the west coast of Western Australia where it occurs on coastal limestone usually adjacent to sand dunes between Fremantle in the south and Shark Bay in the north.

[2] It grows in sandy soils as a part of scrub, thicket, mallee or low forest communities.