Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia filicifolia
Common name
Fern-leaved wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and shrubland. Often in moist gullies, and near streams. Coast and ranges north of Tomakin. Tablelands north from west of Kanangra-Boyd National Park. Naturalised in Aranda Bushland, ACT.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 14 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth, later deeply fissured near the base. Branchlets angled to more or less cylindrical amd ridged, often glaucous, hairy, becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, rachis 1.5-12 cm long, hairy or becoming hairless, 1–5 prominent glands present on the leaf stalks; jugary glands often irregularly present, 2–5 interjugary glands between successive pairs of pinnae. 6-28 pinnae each 3-8 cm long and with 46-186 leaflets each usually 0.3-1.2 cm long, less than 1 mm wide, hairy with fine more or less appressed white hairs (often only on the margins) or hairless, tips blunt to broadly rounded. Flower heads yellow, globular, 15-35 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 3-6 mm in diameter, in branched clusters. 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~filicifolia (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=f&id=23648&o=1
This identification key and fact sheets are available as a free mobile application:
