Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia mabellae
Common name
Mabel's wattle, Black wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and moist gullies. Coast, ranges, and tablelands, mostly between the Nowra district and Bega.
Notes
Tree or shrub to 20 m tall. Dark fleshy seed stall encircling the seed. Bark rough, often fissured. Branchlets angled or flattened towards the tips, hairless. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 8-22 cm long, 5-20 mm wide, more or less straight to slightly curved, surfaces dark green or more or less glaucous, at first golden-hairy, becoming hairless, with a prominent midvein, tips pointed with a mucro. 1 marginal gland 5–30 mm above the base, connected to the midvein by a fine oblique vein, the margin shallowly notched at the gland. Flower heads white to cream, globular, 12-30 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 5-9 mm in diameter, in 5-16 flowered clusters. Flowers Winter to Spring
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~mabellae (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle photos, line drawings and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=m&id=23728&o=1
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