Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Acacia aureocrinita

Flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near Numeralla east of Cooma

Pod and 'leaves'. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near Numeralla east of Cooma

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near Numeralla east of Cooma

Common name

A wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Woodland, often on ridge crests and steep valley sides. Tablelands and the western edge of the ranges, north from the Cooma district to west of Wollongong.

Notes

Shrub to 1.8 m tall. Branchlets cylindrical, ridged, densely yellow-hairy. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 0.8-2 cm long, 4-12 mm wide, green to grey-green, hairy, midvein fairly prominent, margins more or less flat and yellow-green, tips pointed with a mucro, 1 marginal gland mostly up to 1 mm above the base or occasionally absent. Flower heads yellow to cream, with globular heads, 4-7 mm in diameter, 18-30 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), single. Flowers in the warmer months.

Was Acacia uncinata.

Family was Mimosaceae.

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

World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=a&id=23884&o=1