Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia constablei
Common name
Narrabarba wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Shrubland on rocky ridge tops and slopes. Coastal south of Eden.
Notes
Shrub to 5 m tall. Bark smooth. Branchlets angled to cylindrical, with knobbly ridges, hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, rachis with knobbly-wavy ridges, hairy, 1.7-8.5 cm long, usually 1 gland on the leaf stalk at the base of or below the basal pair of pinnae; jugary glands present between all or most pairs of pinnae (sometimes to 1 mm or more below the pinnae and appearing more interjugary), interjugary glands rare. 10-38 pinnae each 0.8-3 cm long, each with 18-60 leaflets 0.1-0.25 cm long, less than 1 mm wide, thick, almost hairless, margins fringed and with a tuft of hairs at the tips. Flower heads pale yellow to cream, 30-45 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 5-7 mm in diameter, usually in elongated clusters, or sometimes in branched clusters. Flowers Winter to early Spring.
Family was Mimosaceae.
Vulnerable Australia. 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.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10010 (accessed 29 April 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~constablei (accessed 29 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=c&id=23610&o=1
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