Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia juncifolia
Common name
Rush-leaved wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and heath. North and west from the Glenbrook area, about 50 km west of Sydney.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m tall. Bark smooth. Branchlets more or less cylindrical, hairless, dark reddish brown, with lenticels. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 7-20 cm long, about 1 mm wide, more or less rigid, straight to curved, cylindrical to more or less 4-angled or flat, surfaces hairless, somewhat glaucous, midvein more or less prominent, tips pointed. 1 marginal gland near the base. Flower heads yellow, globular, 3-6 mm in diameter, 20-30 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), in clusters of 1-3. Flowers June–November.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~juncifolia (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=j&id=23894&o=1
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