Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia hispidula
Common name
Rough hairy wattle, Little harsh acacia, Rough-leaved wattle, Rough-leaved acacia
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest and woodland, often on sandstone outcrops. Coast and ranges north from Morton National Park west of Jervis Bay.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Branchlets more or less cylindrical, rough, hairy with minute hairs. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 1-3 cm long, 3-10 mm wide, usually slightly curved, surfaces densely bristly to more or less hairless, midvein prominent, margins thickened and with prominent wart-based hairs, tips pointed with a mucro. Flower heads yellow to nearly white, globular, 10-20 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 5-8 mm in diameter. Flowers sporadically throughout the year, mainly Summer to Autumn.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~hispidula (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=h&id=20578&o=1
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