Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia leucolobia
Common name
A wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest and heath. North of the ACT. Western Slopes, tablelands, and ranges.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Branchlets angled mainly towards the tips, hairless, lightly to obviously glaucous. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 1.5-3 cm long, 6-14 mm wide, more or less straight, surfaces hairless and glaucous to somewhat glaucous, midvein not prominent, tips blunt or somewhat pointed with a mucro. Flowers globular, 5-10 flowered, 5-10 mm in diameter, yellow, in elongated clusters of 3-14 flower heads. Flowers Autumn to Spring.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~leucolobia (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=l&id=23905&o=1
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