Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia cognata
Common name
Bower wattle, River wattle, Narrow-leaf bower wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and moist gullies. Coast and ranges south of Wollongong. Planted, and an occasional garden escape, in Canberra and Queanbeyan.
Notes
Tree or shrub to 10 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth. Branchlets ridged, hairless to slightly hairy, often sticky, arching to weeping. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, usually weeping, 4-10 cm long, 1-4 mm wide, sparsely hairy to hairless with fringed margins, usually with 3 main longitudinal veins (midvein most prominent), dotted with resin glands, often sticky, tips pointed with a mucro. Flower heads pale yellow, globular, 10-25 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 3-6 mm in diameter, in clusters of 1-2 flower heads. Flowers Winter to Spring.
Intermediate forms between narrow-leaved Acacia cognata and broader-leaved Acacia subporosa occur.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~cognata (accessed 29 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=c&id=8928&o=1
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