Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia clunies-rossiae
Common name
Kanangra wattle, Kowmung wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest on rocky slopes, or along streams, in Kanangra-Boyd and Blue Mountains National Parks.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 10 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Branchlets angled towards the tips, often glaucous, sparsely to moderately hairy with minute hairs. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 2.5-6.5 cm long, 4-10 mm wide, more or less glaucous, appressed-hairy with fine hairs (often sparsely so), midvein prominent, tips blunt with a mucro, 1 marginal gland 2–8 mm above the base. Flower heads globular, 2.5-4 mm in diameter, 7-9 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), in elongated clusters of 6-26 flower heads. Flowering: August and September, sometimes to November.
Family was Mimosaceae.
Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
NSW Threatened Species proflile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10009 (accessed 29 April 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~clunies-rossiae (accessed 29 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photo, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=c&id=23605&o=1
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