Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Acacia hamiltoniana

Common name

Hamilton's wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Dry and wet forest and heath, often on sandstone outcrops. Ranges and the eastern edge of the tablelands north from west of Ulladulla. Coastal north from Jervis Bay.

Notes

Shrub to 3 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Branchlets angled towards the tips and finely ridged, hairless. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 2-8 cm long, 2.5-5 mm wide, straight to slightly curved, surfaces hairless and more or less glaucous, midvein prominent, tips pointed with a mucro. Flower heads yellow, globular, 9-20 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 4-5.5 mm in diameter, in elongated clusters of 2-11 flower heads. Flowers Winter to Spring.

Family was Mimosaceae.

PlantNET description with line drawings, photos, and description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~hamiltoniana  (accessed 27 April 2021)

World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=h&id=23673&o=1