Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia trineura
Common name
Three-nerved Wattle, Three-veined Wattle, Green Wattle, Hindmarsh Wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Mallee, sometimes near water. Western Slopes, mainly in the West Wyalong-Condobolin-Forbes area.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 5 m tall, sometimes almost prostrate. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth, grey. Branchlets more or less cylindrical, resin-ribbed at the extremities, densely whitish- or greyish-hairy with minute hairs, becoming hairless with age. ‘Leaves’ alternating up the stems, 3–8 cm long, 3–11 mm wide, somewhat glaucous, hairless or hairy with fine hairs, 3–7 main longitudinal veins, 3 often slightly more prominent, tips blunt with a mucro. Flower heads pale yellow to yellow, 3–5 mm in diameter, 12 to about 25 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), globular, in 3–8 flowered clusters. Flowering: August–October. Aril folded 1–3 times.
Family was Mimosaceae.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~trineura(accessed 28 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=t&id=23854&o=1
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