Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Acacia binervata

Flower heads, buds, and 'leaves'. Photographer Jackie Miles

Flower heads, pods, and 'leaves'. Photographer Don Wood, west of Nowra

'Leaf'. Photographer Jackie Miles

Shrub. Photographer John Tann, near Sydney

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