Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia trinervata
Common name
Three-veined wattle
Where found
Dry forest and woodland on sandstone and shale. Western Sydney and the lower Blue Mountains.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 4 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Branchlets angular at the extremities, later more or less cylindrical with low ridges, hairless except commonly with minute resin producing hairs. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 1.5-5 cm long, 1-3 mm wide, hairless, sometimes scurfy at first, 2 or 3 longitudinal veins prominent, tips sharply pointed. Flower heads golden to pale yellow, globular, 3.5–7.5 mm in diameter, 20-45-flowered (easiest seen in late buds), single. Flowering: throughout the year. Pods straight to curved, sometimes curled back or twisted. Aril folded 3 or 4 times, expanded towards the seed.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~trinervata (accessed 28 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=t&id=23853&o=1
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