Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia lineata
Common name
Streaked Wattle, Narrow Lined-leaved Acacia
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, mallee, and shrublands. Western Slopes mainly west of the Olympic Highway.
Notes
Shrub 0.5–2 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth, grey. Branchlets more or less cylindrical, sparsely to densely hairy, often resinous. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, somewhat crowded, 0.7-2 cm long, 1-4 mm wide, hairless to hairy, sticky, with a prominent resinous longitudinal vein close to the upper margin, margins thickened, tips somewhat pointed, often with a curved, sometimes almost hooked, mucro. Flower heads yellow, 2.5–5 mm in diameter, 10–18-flowered, globular, single or in pairs. Flowering: August–October. Pods strongly curved or twisted, usually hairless and sticky, sometimes covered in glandular hairs.
Family was Mimosaceae.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~lineata (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=l&id=23720&o=1
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