Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia oshanesii
Common name
Corkwood wattle, Irish wattle, Feather wattle, Silver wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Rainforest and wet forest, often near streams. Coast and ranges between west of Jervis Bay and the Nowra district.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 12 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth or fissured. Branchlets angled to cylindrical, ridged, with white to yellowish brown hairs along the ridges. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, 1 prominent raised gland on the leaf stalk at the base of the lowest pair of pinnae. Rachis 2.5-12 cm long, hairy, 1 jugary or interjugary gland (usually 1 jugary gland at the top of the rachis) present between the upper pairs of pinnae. 14-54 pinnae each 1-5 cm long, each with 28-102 leaflets each mostly 0.1-0.3 cm long, 0.5-0.7 mm wide, surfaces hairless. Flower heads yellow to cream, globular, about 20–32 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 3-8 mm in diameter, in elongated and branched clusters. Flowers all year.
Family was Mimosaceae.
Occasionally hybridises with Acacia baileyana.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~oshanesii (accessed 28 April 2021
World Wide Wattle photos, line drawings and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=o&id=23765&o=1
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