Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia linearifolia
Common name
Narrow-leaved wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest and woodland, often on exposed rocky areas. Coast, and ranges north of Mittagong. Western Slopes.
Notes
Shrub or tree to about 10 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth, often corrugated or fissured towards the base. Branchlets more or less cylindrical, angled at the tips, hairless, sometimes scurfy. Compound leaves sometimes present on mature plants. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 6-14 cm long, 1-5 mm wide, more or less straight to slightly curved, surfaces hairless, midvein prominent, tips pointed with a mucro. 1 or occasionally 2 marginal glands, small, prominent, the lower gland 10–60 mm above the base. Flower heads yellow, globular, 4-7 mm in diameter, usually 20-30 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), in elongated clusters of 5-20 flower heads. Flowering: August–October.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~linearifolia (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=l&id=20536&o=1
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