Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia blayana
Common name
Blay's wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest and rocky sites. Ranges in Wadbilliga National Park. Coastal on the Princes Highway between Cobargo and Brogo (north of Bega). One sighting on the tablelands south east of Bombala.
Notes
Tree to 25 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth. Branchlets more or less angled at the tips, soon cylindrical, mostly glaucous, hairless except that they are hairy towards the tips. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, rachis 1–6 cm long, hairy with minute appressed hairs to hairless, 1 small round gland on the leaf stalk at the base of or near the basal pair of pinnae; small round jugary glands present, interjugary glands absent. 4-8 pinnae, each 4-9.5 cm long and with 12-28 leaflets each 1-3.4 cm long, 1.5-4 mm wide, surfaces more or less appressed-hairy. Flower heads globular, yellow, 12-30 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 5-9 mm in diameter, in branched clusters. Flowers Spring.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~blayana (accessed 3 April, 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=b&id=23575&o=1
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