Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia gordonii
Common name
Gordon's wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest and heath on sandstone outcrops. Blue Mountains and near Hornsby and Glenorie (outer Sydney).
Notes
Shrub to 1.5 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth. Branchlets more or less cylindrical, densely hairy. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, spirally arranged, or clustered to whorled, 0.5-1.5 cm long, 0.7-1 mm wide, straight or slightly curved, surfaces usually hairy with wart-based hairs, becoming more or less hairless with the surfaces remaining warty, veins not evident, tips pointed. Flower heads yellow, globular, 7-8 mm in diameter, 12-34 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), single in the 'leaf' axils. Flowers August–September.
Endangered Australia. Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
Family was Mimosaceae.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10015 (accessed 27 April 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~gordonii (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=g&id=23665&o=1
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