Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia alpina
Flowering branches. Photographer Neil Blair, Mt Buffalo, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Board
Common name
Alpine wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Woodland and heath, often among rocks, mostly between 1300 and 1800m altitude. ACT, the mountains to the west, and Kosciuszko National Park and west.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m tall, sometmes almost prostrate. Seeds with large top shaped arils. Branchlets angled or flattened towards the tips, hairless. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 1.5-4.5 cm long, 8-27 mm wide, often one margin slightly rounder, the other more straight, surfaces hairless, often slightly glaucous, with 2-4 prominent longitudinal veins, tips blunt, sometimes with a mucro. Flower heads oval to cylindrical, 5-20 mm long, yellow, single or paired, on flower stalks 0-4 mm long. Flowers Spring to early Summer.
Family was Mimosaceae.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Victoria.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~alpina (accessed 3 April, 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=a&id=23545&o=1
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