Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Acacia mollifolia
Hairy silver wattle, Velvet acacia, Hoary silver wattle
Fabaceae
Dry forest and woodland, often on rocky ridges. Western Slopes and tablelands, north from Boorowa.
Shrub or tree to 6 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth or finely fissured at the base. Branchlets more or less cylindrical with low inconspicuuous ridges, densely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, stalk densely hairy, 1 gland on the stalk at the base of or near the lowest pair of pinnae. Rachis 1-6.5 cm long, densely hairy, jugary glands present (hairy and often obscured by the rachis hairs), interjugary glands absent. 8-20 pinnae each 0.8-4 cm long and with 14-54 leaflets each 0.25-0.75 cm long, less than 1 mm wide, covered with long fine silvery hairs. Flower heads yellow, globular, 3-6 mm in diameter, 20-42 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), in many-flowered clusters. Flowers most of the year. Pods densely silvery grey-hairy to rusty-hairy.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl? page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~mollifolia (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=m&id=23744&o=1
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