Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia elongata
Common name
Slender wattle, Swamp wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland and heath, often in moist areas. Coast, ranges, and tablelands. Doubtfully naturalised in the ACT.
Notes
Shrub to 5 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Branchlets cylindrical, angled towards the tips, hairy to hairless, with yellow longitudinal ridges. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 4-17 cm long, 1-7 mm wide, more or less rigid, straight to slightly curved, surfaces sparsely hairy to hairless, mostly 3 longitudinal veins prominent, tips pointed or blunt with a mucro. Flower heads yellow, globular, 20-42 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 5-10 mm aross, in clusters of 1-7. Flowers Winter to Spring.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~elongata (accessed 27 December, 2020)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=e&id=20571&o=1
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