Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia lanigera
Common name
Hairy wattle, Woolly wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest and woodland, often on stony slopes. Mainly tablelands, Western Slopes, and Kosciuszko National Park. Ranges south and west of Eden. Occasionally coastal.
var. gracilipes: Ranges south and west of Eden
var. lanigera: Mainly tablelands, Western Slopes, and Kosciuszko National Park. ACT. Ranges south and west of Eden. Occasionally coastal.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth. Branchlets angled or ridged towards the tips, hairy, often ridged. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 2-7 cm long, 2-8 mm wide, more or less rigid, straight to slightly curved, surfaces hairy or hairless, with 2–4 main (and sometimes other less prominent) longitudinal veins, tips pointed or sometimes blunt with a mucro. Flower heads yellow, globular to oval, 15-30 flowered (best seen in late buds), 5-9 mm in diameter, in groups of 1-4. Pods hairy. Flowers Autumn to Spring. Pods curved to openly once-coiled, whitish-woolly to hairy
Family was Mimosaceae.
Rare Victoria (both subspecies).
Var. lanigera: Hairy to hairless flower stalks 5-10 mm long, and the gland mostly 3.5-13 mm above the base of the 'leaf'.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Var. gracilipes: More or less hairless flower stalks 1-5 mm long, and the gland at or near the base of the 'leaf'.
PlantNET description of species and key to subspecies: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~lanigera (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings and description (var. gracilipes): http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=l&id=23701&o=1
World Wide Wattle photos, line drawings and description (var. lanigera): http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=l&id=23702&o=1
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