Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia binervia
Common name
Coast myall, Coastal myall, Coastal wattle, Kai'arrewan
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Poor rainforest, open dry forest, woodland, heath, rocky slopes, hind dunes of beaches, and along streams. Coastal north from Moruya. Ranges north from Wadbilliga National Park. Tablelands mostly south of the Hume Highway and east of the ACT.
Notes
Tree to 16 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark flaky, deeply fissured. Branchlets angled or flattened at the tips, hairy. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 4-15 cm long, 5-25 mm wide, straight to strongly curved, surfaces somewhat glaucous to glaucous, covered with fine, white-grey appressed hairs, 3 or rarely 4-8 veins prominent, with numerous longitudinal secondary veins, tips pointed or with a hooked, knob-like mucro. Flower heads cylindrical, yellow, 20-60 mm long, in clusters of 1-5. Flowers Winter to Spring.
Family was Mimosaceae.
Endangered Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~binervia (accessed 3 April, 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=b&id=23572&o=1
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