Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia amblygona
Common name
Fan Wattle, Fan-leaf Wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, mallee, and heath, often in dry creek beds. Western Slopes.
Notes
Shrub to 1.5 m high, or sprawling to prostrate. 'Leaf' tips sharp or pointed. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Branchlets more or less cylindrical with fine ridges, sparsely to densely hairy, sometimes hairless. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 0.4–2 cm long, 1.5–4 mm wide, hairless to sparsely hairy with long hairs, tips sharp or pointed, bases with one side longer than the other. Flower heads 4–6.5 mm in diameter, golden, globular to shortly oblong, 10–18-flowered (most easily seen in late buds). Flower heads single or paired, on flower stalks 5–13 mm long. Flowering: July–October. Pods strongly curved or twisted or often coiled 1–2 times.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~amblygona (accessed 3 April, 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=a&id=16895&o=1
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