Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia buxifolia subsp. buxifolia
Common name
Box-leaf wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and heath, often on rocky outcrops and rocky hillsides. Tablelands, ACT, and Western Slopes. Ranges north from Morton National Park.
Occasionally naturalised in coastal districts: roadsides on the Kings Highway, the Princes Highway north of Batemans Bay, and in the Sydney area.
Notes
Shrub to 4 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Branchlets angled or flattened, hairless, not glaucous. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 1-3 cm long, 2-8 mm wide, the lower margin often more or less straight, leaves thin to leathery, green to somewhat glaucous, hairless or with a few marginal hairs near the base, tips pointed to almost blunt, with a mucro. Flower heads globular, yellow, 7-15 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 4-8 mm in diameter, in elongated clusters of 2-14 flower heads. Flowers Winter to Spring. Pods straight to strongly curved.
Family was Mimosaceae.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~buxifolia (accessed 3 April, 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=b&id=23584&o=1
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