Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia kybeanensis
Common name
Kybean wattle, Kybeyan wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest and woodland, often on rocky slopes or along streams, commonly at about 1000m altitude. Mainly ranges in the Blue Mountains, and east of Cooma. Rarely elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub to 2.5 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Branchlets more or less cylindrical, sparsely to moderately hairy. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 1-5 cm long 3-7 mm wide, straight or slightly curved, surfaces grey-green to more or less glaucous, at first hairy, then more or less hairless, midvein prominent, tips somewhat pointed or blunt with a mucro. Flower heads yellow, globular, 6-15 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 4-7 mm in diameter, in elongated clusters of 3-8 flower heads. Flowers Winter to Spring.
Family was Mimosaceae.
Rare Victoria.
Hybridises with Acacia pravissima. Possible hybrids between Acacia kybeanensis and Acacia kettlewelliae have been reported in the Kybeyan Range east of Cooma.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~kybeanensis (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=k&id=23698&o=1
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