Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia lunata
Common name
Lunate-leaved acacia
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest and woodland on sandstone, often near streams. Tablelands, ranges, and coast, north from west of Moss Vale. Doubtfully naturalised in the ACT.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Branchlets angled, becoming cylindrical and ridged, hairless. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 1.5-3.5 cm long, 2.5-9 mm wide, the upper margin usually shallowly convex-curved, the lower margin more or less straight to shallowly concave-curved (sometimes convex), surfaces green, more or less glaucous when young, hairless or with a few marginal hairs near the 'leaf' base, midvein towards the upper margin and not prominent, tips pointed to blunt with a mucro. Flower heads yellow, globular, 4.5-6 mm in diameter, 3-5 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), in elongated clusters of 2-23 flower heads. Flowering: July–November, mainly August-September.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~lunata (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=l&id=23727&o=1
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