Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia aspera subsp. aspera
Common name
Rough wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest and woodland. ACT and the tablelands nearby, and the Western Slopes.
Notes
Shrub 0.5–2 m tall. 'Leaves' with sharp points. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Branchlets more or less cylindrical, ridged, hairy, resinous. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 0.6-4 cm long, 2-7 mm wide, sparsely hairy (some hairs glandular), surfaces rough, tips sharp. Flower heads yellow, globular, 4-9 mm in diameter, 15-50 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), in groups of 1-3 in the leaf axils. Flowering: August–October. Pods curved or more or less twisted or coiled 1–2 times, densely hairy with some hairs glandular. Pods more or less cylindrical.
Acacia aspera in PlantNET.
Family was Mimosaceae.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~aspera (accessed 29 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=a&id=20554&o=1
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