Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia ptychoclada
Common name
A wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Damp and swampy sites and along streams in the Blue Mountains.
Notes
Shrub to 2.5 m tall. 'Leaf' tips sharp. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth. Branchlets angular, more or less strongly ribbed, hairy with minute hairs, often with scattered dark resin-hairs. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 4-11 cm long, less than 1 mm wide, cylindrical or 4-angled in cross section, surfaces sparsely hairy, becoming hairless, 3 longitudinal veins prominent (sometimes only 1 or 2), tips with a stiff sharp point, or somewhat pointed with a mucro. Flower heads pale yellow to almost white, globular, 5-7 mm in diameter, 25-40 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), single or in pairs. Flowering: January–April.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~ptychoclada (accessed 28 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=p&id=23793&o=1
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