Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia lucasii
Common name
Woolly bear wattle, Lucas's wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and heath, often in rocky areas. Tablelands and ranges south from north east of Cooma.
Notes
Shrub to 4 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Branchlets more or less cylindrical, hairy. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 1.5-6 cm long, 6-15 mm wide, straight or slightly curved, surfaces hairy, midvein and marginal veins prominent, margins flat to slightly wavy, tips blunt with a mucro, one side of the base sometimes longer than the other. Flower heads yellow, oval to globular, 5-10 mm long, 12-40 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), in elongated clusters of 1–10 flower heads, the axis 1–5 cm long. Individual flower stalks 1–10 mm long. Flowers Winter to Summer. Pods rusty brown velvety.
Family was Mimosaceae.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~lucasii (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle photos, line drawings and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=l&id=23726&o=1
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