Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia leiocalyx subsp. leiocalyx
Common name
Black wattle, Early black wattle, Early flowering black wattle, Lamb's tail wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and heath. North and west from Sydney.
Notes
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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