Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia aculeatissima
Common name
Thin-leaf wattle, Snake wattle, Thin-leaf acacia
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, heath, and disturbed sites. Coast and ranges south of Eden and Bombala. Occasional records from the tablelands south from Queanbeyan.
Notes
Dwarf shrub, sprawling or to 1 m tall. Branchlets angled or flattened, hairy to bristly, rarely hairless. Sharp-pointed 'leaves'. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. 'Leaves' scattered, sometimes crowded on short shoots at the base of the 'leaves' and appearing clustered, 0.5-2 cm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, more or less straight, usually more or less cylindrical, surfaces covered with minute warts, tips sharp. Flower heads globular (occasionally oval), cream to yellow, 3-6 mm in diameter, 18-25 flowered (easiest seen in late buds) in clusters of 1-3. Flowers Winter to Spring.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~aculeatissima (accessed 3 April, 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=a&id=20548&o=1
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