Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Acacia siculiformis

Common name

Dagger wattle, Creek wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Dry forest and woodland, often in rocky situations, often in gullies, on along streams, and near swamps. Western Slopes, Kosciuszko National Park. ACT, tablelands, and ranges.

Notes

Shrub to 3 m tall, sometimes sprawling. Sharp-pointed 'leaves'. Bark smooth with a more or less chequered appearance. Branchlets more or less cylindrical, resinous, hairless, not conspicuously ridged. Smaller branchlets often with prominent lenticels. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 1-3.7 cm long, 1.5-5 mm wide, more or less rigid, surfaces hairless, midvein prominent, tips with rigid sharp points. Flower heads yellow to almost white, globular, 30-45 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 4.5-8 mm in diameter, single or paired. Flowers Winter to early Summer. Pods hairless, resinous.

Family was Mimosaceae.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

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

World Wide Wattle photos, line drawings and description:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=s&id=23826&o=1