Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia flexifolia
Common name
Bent-leaf wattle, Small winter wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and shrubland. Western Slopes. Doubtfully naturalised in the ACT.
Notes
Shrub to 1.5 m tall, spreading or sprawling. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Branchlets angled at the tips, hairy with minute hairs, and scurfy between resinous longitudinal ridges. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 1-2.5m long, 0.7-2 mm wide, straight or slightly curved, surfaces hairless, veins and margins resinous, midvein prominent, closer to the upper margin and often joining it towards the tip, tips blunt with a mucro. 1 marginal gland near the base, the margin usually notched at the gland. Flower heads yellow, globular, 4-6 mm in diameter, 3-10 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), usually in pairs. Flowering: usually June–September.
Family was Mimosaceae.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~flexifolia (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=f&id=23652&o=1
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