Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia chalkeri
Common name
Chalker's wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest and woodland on limestone. Restricted to the Wombeyan Caves area.
Notes
Shrub to 4 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Branchlets angled at the tips, dark reddish, hairless. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 2.5-6.5 cm long, 3-17 mm wide, thin, surfaces sometimes glaucous, hairless, midvein prominent, tips blunt with a mucro. Flower heads yellow, globular, 3.5-5.5 mm in diameter, 15-25 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), in elongated clusters of 4-9 flower heads.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~chalkeri (accessed 3 April, 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photo, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=c&id=23600&o=1
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