Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia boormanii
Common name
Snowy River wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest and woodland, often in gullies and along streams. ACT. Tablelands south from east of Bredbo. Ranges in Wadbilliga National Park.
Roadsides. Naturalised in Canberra and widely planted. Planted in Sydney and nearby.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 4.5 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth. Branchlets angled and often faintly glaucous towards the tips, hairless. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 1.5-9 cm long, 1-3 mm wide, somewhat glaucous or glaucous, hairless, except that the upper margin near the base often has minute hairs, tips blunt with a mucro, 1 small marginal gland 2–15 mm above the base. Flower heads globular, golden yellow, 5-10 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 3.5-5.5 mm in diameter, in elongated clusters of 5-14 flowers. Flowers Winter to Spring.
Hybridises with Acacia pravissima.
Family was Mimosaceae.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~boormanii (accessed 3 April, 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=b&id=20557&o=1
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