Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia brownii
Common name
Prickly Moses, Heath wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and heath. Coast and ranges. Tablelands north of Deua National Park.
Notes
Dwarf shrub to 1 m tall, occasionally prostrate. Branchlets more or less cylindrical, hairless or sparsely hairy. Sharp-pointed 'leaves'. 'Leaves' scattered, widely spaced, 0.8-2.5 cm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide, square to more or less flat in cross section, leaves hairless, gradually tapering to a sharp point. Stipules usually less than 1 mm long, frequently falling early. Flower heads globular, bright yellow, 12-40 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 5-10 mm in diameter, on stalks 7-20 mm long. Flowers Winter to Spring.
Family was Mimosaceae.
Intergrades with Acacia ulicifolia.
Spelled Acacia brownei in Terry Tame: Acacias of Southeast Australia (1992) Kenthurst NSW, Kangaroo Press
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~brownii (accessed 3 April, 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=b&id=20561&o=1
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