Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia melvillei
Common name
Myall, Yarran
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Woodland, shrubland, and the Murray floodplain. Western Slopes.
Notes
Shrub or tree 1–15 m tall. Seeds with a small aril. Often suckers. Bark finely fissured. Branchlets angular towards the tips, hairless or appressed-hairy on new growth. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 5-10.5 cm long, 5-25 mm wide, straight to slightly curved, surfaces hairless to hairy with minute hairs, margins entire, tips rounded to pointed and sometimes with a straight to curved mucro, 1 marginal gland at the base. Flower heads bright yellow, 25–50-flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 4–7 mm in diameter, globular, in 1-5 headed clusters, often 2 clusters together. Flowering: August–October, sometimes earlier and into November.
Family was Mimosaceae.
Acacia melvillei Shrubland in the Riverina and Murray-Darling Depression bioregions are an Endangered community in NSW.
Threatened community profile: https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=20094 (accessed 2 January 2021)
Vulnerable Vic. Listed in Flora and Fauna Act, Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~melvillei (accessed 2 January 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings and photos: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=m&id=23737&o=1
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