Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia flocktoniae
Common name
Flockton wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest on sandstone. Blue Mountains and the tablelands nearby.
Notes
Shrub to 4 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Branchlets somewhat winged, and angled or flattened at the tips, red brown, hairless. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, rather crowded, 4-10 cm long, 2-5 mm wide, more or less straight, hairless, midvein more or less prominent, tips somewhat pointed with a mucro. Flower heads creamy white or yellow, globular, 3.5-5 mm in diameter, 20-30 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), in elongated clusters of 4-10 flower heads. Flowers most of the year, mainly June to August.
Family was Mimosaceae.
Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
NSW Threatened Species profile with photo: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10013 (accessed 2 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~flocktoniae (accessed 2 January 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photo, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=f&id=23653&o=1
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