Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia acinacea
Common name
Gold-dust wattle, Round-leaved wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, heath, and shrubland. Tablelands and Western Slopes south from Eumungerie and Gulgong.
Notes
Shrub to about 2.5 m tall or sprawling. Seeds with a large brown aril. Bark smooth. Branchlets somewhat angled or flattened at the tips, hairless or hairy. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 0.4-2 cm long, 2-10 mm wide, hairless or hairy, tips more or less blunt, usually with an oblique, minute mucro, marginal glands not prominent, one near or below the middle of the 'leaf' and another adjacent to the mucro. Flower heads golden, globular, 3-5.5 mm in diameter, 8-20 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), single or paired. Flowering: usually August–October. Pods twisted or spirally coiled.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~acinacea (accessed 29 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=a&id=23540&o=1
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