Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Acacia covenyi

Flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Pods and 'leaves'. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Bendethera wattle, Blue bush

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Dry forest, mainly on rocky slopes and ridges. Ranges and tablelands in and near Deua and Wadbilliga National Parks. One coastal record from near Bega. Occasionally planted in the ACT.

Notes

Tree or shrub to 7.5 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth. Branchlets angled at the tips, hairless, sometimes glaucous. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 3-5.5 cm long, 5-11 mm wide, straight or slightly curved, surfaces hairless, glaucous, midvein prominent, tips blunt with a mucro. Flower heads yellow, globular, 5-8 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 3-5 mm in diameter, in elongated clusters of 5-11 flower heads. Flowers Winter to Spring.

Family was Mimosaceae.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~covenyi (accessed 29 April 2021)

World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=c&id=23614&o=1