Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Acacia deanei

Flower buds, flower heads, and leaves  (subsp. paucijuga). Photographer Chris Lindorff, Terrick Terrick National Park, Vic

Mature pods and leaves (subsp. paucijuga). Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Tree (subsp. paucijuga). Australian Plant Image Index, photographer A McWhirter, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stem. (subsp. deanei). Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Murda State Forest near Condobolin

Common name

Deane's wattle, Green wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

subsp. deanei:  Dry forest and woodland. Tablelands and Western Slopes.

subsp. paucijuga:  Dry forest and woodland, sometimes in rocky gorges. Western Slopes, Kosciuszko National Park, Northern ACT, tablelands, and the western edge of the ranges.

Notes

Shrub or tree to 7 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth. Branchlets angled to cylindrical with ridges, hairy to almost hairless, green or dark purplish, sometimes appearing waxy. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, rachis 0.7–6.5 cm long, appressed-haiy, 1 raised gland on the leaf stalk at the base of, or to 5 mm or sometimes more, below the basal pinnae, jugary glands present, interjugary glands absent or 1–3 between some or all pairs of pinnae. 2-24 pinnae, each 1-6.5 cm long, with 14-90 leaflets, each 0.1-1.2 cm long, 0.4-1.3 mm wide, hairless to moderately hairy, particularly on the lower surface. Flower heads cream to yellow, globular, 15-30 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 3-5.5 mm in diameter, in many-flowered clusters. Flowers all year.

Family was Mimosaceae.

subsp. deanei:  Branchlets green. Leaves with 6-24 pinnae, each mostly 1-3.5 cm long, and up to 68 leaflets 0.1-0.5 cm long, 0.5-1.3 mm wide.

Endangered Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, Vic.

World Wide Wattle line drawings and photos:  http://worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=d&id=23626&o=1

subsp. paucijuga:  Branchlets often dark purplish, sometimes appearing waxy. Leaves with 2-16 or more pinnae, each 1.5-6.5 cm long, and up to 90 leaflets 0.4-1.2 cm long, 0.4-1 mm wide.

Rare Vic.

World Wide Wattle line drawings and photos:  http://worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=d&id=23627&o=1

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