Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia hamiltoniana
Common name
Hamilton's wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry and wet forest and heath, often on sandstone outcrops. Ranges and the eastern edge of the tablelands north from west of Ulladulla. Coastal north from Jervis Bay.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Branchlets angled towards the tips and finely ridged, hairless. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 2-8 cm long, 2.5-5 mm wide, straight to slightly curved, surfaces hairless and more or less glaucous, midvein prominent, tips pointed with a mucro. Flower heads yellow, globular, 9-20 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 4-5.5 mm in diameter, in elongated clusters of 2-11 flower heads. Flowers Winter to Spring.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description with line drawings, photos, and description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~hamiltoniana (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=h&id=23673&o=1
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