Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Acacia mabellae
Mabel's wattle, Black wattle
Fabaceae
Forest, woodland, and moist gullies. Coast, ranges, and tablelands, mostly between the Nowra district and Bega.
Tree or shrub to 20 m tall. Dark fleshy seed stall encircling the seed. Bark rough, often fissured. Branchlets angled or flattened towards the tips, hairless. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 8-22 cm long, 5-20 mm wide, more or less straight to slightly curved, surfaces dark green or more or less glaucous, at first golden-hairy, becoming hairless, with a prominent midvein, tips pointed with a mucro. 1 marginal gland 5–30 mm above the base, connected to the midvein by a fine oblique vein, the margin shallowly notched at the gland. Flower heads white to cream, globular, 12-30 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 5-9 mm in diameter, in 5-16 flowered clusters. Flowers Winter to Spring
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~mabellae (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle photos, line drawings and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=m&id=23728&o=1
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