Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia prominens
Common name
Gosford wattle, Golden rain wattle, Grey sally
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Wet forest and rainforest margins and open situations, often near streams. Coastal north of Wollongong.
Notes
Tree to 25 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth. Branchlets angled at the extermities, hairless. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 2.5-6 cm long, 4-12 mm wide, hairless or very sparsely hairy, grey-green to glaucous, midvein prominent, tips pointed to blunt with a mucro, 1 prominent marginal gland 5–20 mm above the base. Flower heads white to yellow, globular, 3-5 mm in diameter, 7-16 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), in elongated clusters of 5-25 flower heads. Flowering: July–September.
Family was Mimosaceae.
Endangered population of Gosford Wattle in the Hurstville and Kogarah local government areas.
Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species or a part of a threatened ecological community.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10022 (accessed 3 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~prominens (accessed 3 January 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=p&id=23791&o=1
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