Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Acacia kettlewelliae

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Wadbilliga National Park

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra

Common name

Buffalo wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Dry forest and woodland, often on granite hillsides, and in gullies and near streams. Tablelands south of Cootamundra. Kosciuszko National Park. Tablelands and ranges south of the Hume Highway. One record from the ACT.

Notes

Tree or shrub to 10 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Branchlets angled at the tips, hairless. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 3-10 cm long, 3-12 mm wide, more or less straight or slightly curved, surfaces green or more or less glaucous, hairless, midvein prominent, tips more or less pointed to blunt, with a mucro. A prominent marginal gland 5–15 mm from the base. Flower heads yellow, globular, 8-25 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 3.5-7 mm in diameter, in elongated clusters of 4-16 flower heads. Flowers Spring to Summer.

Family was Mimosaceae.

Possible hybrids between Acacia kybeanensis and Acacia kettlewelliae have been reported.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~kettlewelliae  (accessed 27 April 2021)

World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=k&id=23696&o=1