Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Acacia leprosa

Flowering stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Parry's Nursery, NSW

Flowering branches. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Adelaide Botanic Gardens, Adelaide, SA

Line drawings. (as Acacia verniciflua (southern variant)). l. flowering branch with stem and leaf stalk detail. M Moir, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board

Common name

Cinnamon wattle, Leper wattle, Eastern cinnamon wattle (var. leprosa), Southern varnish wattle (var. graveolens)

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Forest and woodland. Scattered along the Great Dividing Range.

Notes

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