Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Acacia leiocalyx subsp. leiocalyx
Black wattle, Early black wattle, Early flowering black wattle, Lamb's tail wattle
Fabaceae
Forest, woodland, and heath. North and west from Sydney.
Shrub or tree to 6 m tall, sometimes more. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark fissured or slightly corrugated, flaky-fibrous. Branchlets sharply angular, hairless, sometimes slightly scurfy, usually red-brown. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 7-18 cm long, 7-35 mm wide, broader in juvenile 'leaves', 'leaves' more or less straight to strongly curved, surfaces hairless, 3 or more longitudinal veins more prominent, the lower 2 joining together near the bases, tips pointed to blunt. 1 marginal gland at the base. Flower heads cream to yellow, cylindrical, 30-100 mm long, paired, occasionally single. Flowering: usually June–October. Pods curved, twisted, or coiled 1–2 times.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~leiocalyx (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=l&id=30533&o=1
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