Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia fimbriata
Common name
Fringed wattle, Brisbane golden wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Rainforest margins, dry forest, and woodland, often along rocky streams. Coast, ranges and tablelands north from Tilba and from near Cooma. Doubtfully naturalised in the ACT.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 6 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Branchlets angled or flattened towards the tips, slightly ridged, hairy to hairless. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems to almost opposite each other, 2-6 cm long, 1.5-7 mm wide, straight or slightly curved, margins more or less appressed hairy (sometimes hairless), midvein fine and more or less prominent, tips pointed with a straight mucro. 1 more or less prominent marginal gland 1–7 mm above the base, sometimes a second gland. Flower heads yellow, globular, 8-20 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 3-5 mm in diameter, in elongated clusters of 8-25 flower heads. 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~fimbriata (accessed 27 December, 2020)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=f&id=20572&o=1
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