Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia maidenii
Common name
Maiden's wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Rainforest margins, and wet and dry forests. Coast and ranges. Tablelands west and north of Wollongong.
Notes
Tree or shrub to 20m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth, fissured on older trunks. Branchlets angled towards the tips, with prominent lenticels, hairy, becoming hairless. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 7-20 cm long, 5-35 mm wide, mostly straight to somewhat strongly curved, surfaces usually more or less hairless except for sparse appressed hairs mainly near the 'leaf' bases and often along the margins, 1–5 longitudinal veins more prominent, tips pointed or somewhat pointed. Flower heads pale yellow to white, cylindrical, 25-60 mm long, single or paired. Flower stalks with golden hairs. Flowers Summer to Winter. Pods twisted or coiled one or more times, longitudinally ridged, hairless or sparsely to moderately appressed hairy
Endangered Victoria. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, Vic.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~maidenii (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle photos, line drawings and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=m&id=23731&o=1
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