Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia linifolia
Common name
Flax-leaved wattle, White wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and heath. Coastal north of Dalmeny. Ranges and tablelands west and north of Port Kembla.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 6 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth or finely fissured. Branchlets angled towards the tips, finely ridged, hairless or sometimes hairy. 'Leaves' scattered, rather crowded, 1.5-7 cm long, 0.7-3 mm wide, more or less straight, surfaces usually hairless except for the leaf stalk and the upper margin near the base, which are often sparsely hairy with minute hairs ('leaves' sometimes hairy with fine hairs and becoming hairless), midvein prominent, tips pointed with a mucro. Flower heads almost white to creamy yellow, globular, 6-12 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 4-5.5 mm in diameter, in elongated clusters of 5-17 flower heads. Flowers all year.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~linifolia (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle photos, line drawings and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=l&id=23721&o=1
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