Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Acacia ausfeldii

Common name

Ausfeld's wattle, Whipstick cinnamon wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Woodland, roadsides, and gullies. North and west from the Mudgee area.

Notes

Shrub or tree to 4 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Branchlets cylindrical, becoming angled (somewhat 4-angled) to flattened towards the tips, ribbed, hairless, resinous. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 2-7 cm long, 2-7 mm wide, straight to slightly curved, hairless or with minute white hairs along the margins, surfaces dotted with resin glands, tips blunt with a mucro, 1 marginal gland near the base. Flower heads bright yellow, globular to slightly oval, 6-8 mm in diameter, 25-45 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), in groups of 2-3 in the 'leaf' axils. Flowering: August–October.

Family was Mimosaceae.

Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

Vulnerable Vic.

NSW Threatened Species profile:   http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=20061 (accessed 29 April 2021)

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~ausfeldii (accessed 29 April 2021)

World Wide Wattle description, line drawings, photos, and description:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=a&id=20555&o=1