Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia ausfeldii
Common name
Ausfeld's wattle, Whipstick cinnamon wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Woodland, roadsides, and gullies. North and west from the Mudgee area.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 4 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Branchlets cylindrical, becoming angled (somewhat 4-angled) to flattened towards the tips, ribbed, hairless, resinous. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 2-7 cm long, 2-7 mm wide, straight to slightly curved, hairless or with minute white hairs along the margins, surfaces dotted with resin glands, tips blunt with a mucro, 1 marginal gland near the base. Flower heads bright yellow, globular to slightly oval, 6-8 mm in diameter, 25-45 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), in groups of 2-3 in the 'leaf' axils. Flowering: August–October.
Family was Mimosaceae.
Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
Vulnerable Vic.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=20061 (accessed 29 April 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~ausfeldii (accessed 29 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle description, line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=a&id=20555&o=1
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