Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Acacia dallachiana

Branch with pods. Photographer Mike Bayly, © 2021 Mike Bayly. In VICFLORA

Seeds with white arils. Photographer Neil Blair, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Board

Line drawing. g. flowering branch. Inset: detail of veins in 'leaf'.  M Moir, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board

Common name

Catkin wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Forest and woodland at high altitude. In NSW, known only from the vicinity of Khancoban in the Snowy Mountains.

Notes

Tree to 15 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth, later deeply fissured. Branchlets angled towards the tips, hairless, often somewhat glaucous. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 7-18 cm long, 10-35 mm wide, hairless, 2–6 longitudinal veins prominent, tips somewhat pointed. Flower heads yellow, cylindrical, 15-60 mm long, in groups of 1-2 in the leaf axils. Flowering: October–March.

Family was Mimosaceae.

Rare Vic.

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

World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=d&id=23621&o=1