Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia elata
Common name
Mountain cedar wattle, Cedar wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Forest, along streams, and in gullies. Coast and ranges, mostly north from the Illawarra Highway.
Notes
Tree to 20 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Larger trees slightly flanged at the base. Bark rough at the base. Branchlets cylindrical to slightly flattened, faintly ridged, hairy when young, often becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, 15-42 cm long. Rachis 3-22 cm long, appressed-hairy to more or less hairless, 1 prominent gland about halfway along the leaf stalk; jugary and interjugary glands absent or occasionally 1 gland at the tip. Leaves with 4-14 pinnae each 7-23 cm long and with 12-44 leaflets each 1-8 cm long, 3-13 mm wide, upper and lower sides different colours, surfaces appressed-hairy, becoming hairless. Flower heads cream to pale yellow, globular, 7-10 mm in diameter, 30-55 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), in branched or elongated clusters. Flowers usually Dec.–Mar. Pods densely hairy with minute yellow hairs when young, becoming hairless with age.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~elata (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=a&id=18287&o=1
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