Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Acacia parvipinnula

Common name

Silver-stemmed wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Dry forest and woodland. Ranges and tablelands north from Deua National Park. Coastal north from Sydney.

Notes

Shrub or tree to 10 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth. Branchlets angled to cylindrical with low or no ridges, densely covered with stiff hairs, becoming almost hairless. often more or less glaucous. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, stalk more or less hairy and with 1 or several glands. Rachis 1.5-8 cm long, more or less hairy, jugary glands between the bases of all or most pairs of pinnae or sometimes absent, usually 1–3 interjugary glands between successive pairs of pinnae. 8-26 pinnae each 1-5 cm long, with 26-84 leaflets each 0.2-0.55 cm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, margins more or less fringed, lower surface often sparsely hairy. Flower heads globular, mostly 14-20 flowered, 4-6 mm in diameter, pale yellow, in elongated and branched clusters. Flowers most of the year.

Family was Mimosaceae.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~parvipinnula  (accessed 28 April 2021)

World Wide Wattle photo, line drawings and description:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=p&id=23766&o=1