Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia mollifolia
Common name
Hairy silver wattle, Velvet acacia, Hoary silver wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest and woodland, often on rocky ridges. Western Slopes and tablelands, north from Boorowa.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 6 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth or finely fissured at the base. Branchlets more or less cylindrical with low inconspicuuous ridges, densely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, stalk densely hairy, 1 gland on the stalk at the base of or near the lowest pair of pinnae. Rachis 1-6.5 cm long, densely hairy, jugary glands present (hairy and often obscured by the rachis hairs), interjugary glands absent. 8-20 pinnae each 0.8-4 cm long and with 14-54 leaflets each 0.25-0.75 cm long, less than 1 mm wide, covered with long fine silvery hairs. Flower heads yellow, globular, 3-6 mm in diameter, 20-42 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), in many-flowered clusters. Flowers most of the year. Pods densely silvery grey-hairy to rusty-hairy.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl? page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~mollifolia (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=m&id=23744&o=1
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