Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Acacia alpina

Common name

Alpine wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Woodland and heath, often among rocks, mostly between 1300 and 1800m altitude. ACT, the mountains to the west, and Kosciuszko National Park and west.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m tall, sometmes almost prostrate. Seeds with large top shaped arils. Branchlets angled or flattened towards the tips, hairless. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 1.5-4.5 cm long, 8-27 mm wide, often one margin slightly rounder, the other more straight, surfaces hairless, often slightly glaucous, with 2-4 prominent longitudinal veins, tips blunt, sometimes with a mucro. Flower heads oval to cylindrical, 5-20 mm long, yellow, single or paired, on flower stalks 0-4 mm long. Flowers Spring to early Summer. 

Family was Mimosaceae.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

Rare Victoria.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~alpina (accessed 3 April, 2021)

World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=a&id=23545&o=1