Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Acacia leprosa
Cinnamon wattle, Leper wattle, Eastern cinnamon wattle (var. leprosa), Southern varnish wattle (var. graveolens)
Fabaceae
Forest and woodland. Scattered along the Great Dividing Range.
Shrub to 6 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth. Branchlets cylindrical or angled towards the tips, resinous, hairless except for hairy ridges. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 4-11 cm long, 3-30 mm wide, straight to slightly curved, surfaces hairless, or hairy with appressed hairs on the margins and veins, dotted with resin glands, 1 or 2 longitudinal veins (when 2-veined the veins are of equal prominence or the upper one is more pronounced), often with a fine, uneven intramarginal vein on one or both sides of the 'leaf'; tips mostly pointed or gradually tapering to a point. 1 marginal gland 0–8 mm above the base. Flower heads yellow, globular, 5-10 mm in diameter, 20-40 flowered (easiest seen in late buds) in clusters of 1-6, rarely forming racemes. Flowering: August–November.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~leprosa (accessed 27 April 2021)
Var. graveolens: Shrub to 6 m tall. 'Leaves' 4-11 cm long, 5-30 mm wide, with 2 longitudinal veins. The most widespread and common variety of Acacia leprosa.
Data deficient Vic.
PlantNET description (var. graveolens): http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=in&name=Acacia~leprosa+var.~graveolens (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description (var. graveolens): http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=l&id=36942&o=1
Var. leprosa: Shrub to 4 m tall. 'Leaves' usually 5-9 cm long, 3-7 mm wide, with a single longitudinal vein.
PlantNET description (var. leprosa): http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=in&name=Acacia~leprosa+var.~leprosa (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description (var. leprosa): http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=l&id=36940&o=1
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