Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Acacia binervata

Common name

Two-veined hickory

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Forest and moist sites. Coast and ranges north from the Moruya district.

Notes

Shrub or tree to 15 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth or rough, more or less flaky and fissured. Branchlets angled towards the tips, hairless. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 5-16 cm long, 10-50 mm wide, straight to curved, surfaces hairless, tips pointed, 1 marginal gland near the base. Flower heads globular, white to pale yellow, 15-50 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 5-10 mm in diameter, in clusters of 3-12 flower heads. 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~binervata (accessed 3 April, 2021)

World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=b&id=23571&o=1