Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia meiantha
Common name
A wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest and woodland. In a small area east of Lithgow. Also Mullions Range, north of Orange, north of the area covered by this key..
Notes
Shrub to 2.5 m tall. Bark smooth. Branchlets more or less angled at the extermities, soon cylindrical, with many lenticels, hairy with short stiff hairs. Compound leaves sometimes present on mature shrubs. 'Leaves' crowded, 1-6.5 cm long, 0.4-1.2 mm wide, straight to slightly curved, almost cylindrical to more or less flat in cross section, surfaces hairless except for sometimes a few hairs near the base, veins not evident or sometimes with an indistinct midvein or groove, tips blunt with a mucro, 1 marginal gland 0–5.5 mm above the base. Flower heads yellow to dark yellow, globular, 3-5 mm in diameter, 4-8 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), in elongated clusters of 2-19 flower heads. Flowering: July–October.
Family was Mimosaceae.
Endangered Australia. Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=20292 (accessed 27 April 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~meiantha (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawing and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=m&id=23735&o=1
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