Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia baueri
Common name
Tiny wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Heath in rocky or damp areas. North from Sydney.
Notes
Shrub to 1 m tall, or sprawling. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Branchlets more or less cylindrical, hairy or hairless. 'Leaves' usually whorled or scattered, 0.5-1.6 cm long, about 0.5-1.2 mm wide, straight or slightly curved, more or less cylindrical, leathery, surfaces somewhat glaucous, hairless or sparsely hairy, with a longitudinal groove on each surface. Flower heads globular, 3-5 mm in diameter, 8-20 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), single.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description of species and key to subspecies: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~baueri (accessed 29 April 2021)
subsp. aspera: 'Leaves' rather crowded, scattered or in irregular whorls, surfaces warty; flower stalks 2–4 mm long, flower heads usually 8–10-flowered.
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.
NSW threatened species proflile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10005 (accessed 29 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=b&id=23566&o=1
subsp. baueri: 'Leaves' in regular whorls 0.5–2 cm apart, surfaces not conspicuously warty; flower stalks 5–16 mm long, flower heads 10–20-flowered.
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=b&id=23567&o=1
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