Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia falciformis
Common name
Broad-leaved hickory, Mountain hickory, Hickory wattle, Pale hickory wattle, Black wattle, Tanning wattle, Large-leaf hickory wattle, Fringed wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Wet and dry forest, woodland, disturbed sites, moist gullies, and rocky areas. Widespread. Rare on the Western Slopes.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 12 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark finely to deeply fissured. Branchlets angled, often becoming cylindrical, hairless. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 8-25 cm long, 10-40 mm wide, straight to strongly curved, surfaces hairless, mostly green, sometimes somewhat glaucous, midvein prominent and often closer to the upper margin, tips blunt, bases with one side longer than the other. 1 gland 5–30 mm above the base, with a fine vein running to it, the margin notched at the gland. Flower heads yellow to cream, globular, 13-30 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 4-9 mm in diameter, in elongated clusters of 5-18 flower heads. Flower stalks covered in yellow hairs. Flowers mainly Winter to Summer.
Family was Mimosaceae.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Hybridises with Acacia rubida.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~falciformis (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=f&id=23645&o=1
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