Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia jonesii
Common name
A wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest and woodland, often on stony ridges. Ranges and the eastern edge of the tablelands north of inland from Jervis Bay.
Notes
Shrub to 4 m tall. Bark smooth. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Branchlets angled to cylindrical with ridges, hairy with minute hairs, or hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, rachis 1-7.5 cm long, hairy to hairless, a small round more or less jugary gland present at the base of or just below each pair of pinnae except at the basal pinnae, rarely missing from the others, interjugary glands absent. 4-22 pinnae, 0.5-4 cm long, each with 8-42 leaflets each 0.25-0.6 cm long, 0.8-2 mm wide, hairless, or hairy with minute hairs mainly on the margins. Flower heads cream to yellow, globular, 8-15 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 5-8 mm in diameter, in elongated clusters of 6-25 flower heads. Flowers Winter to Spring, occasionally late Summer.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~jonesii (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=j&id=23693&o=1
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