Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Acacia montana

Flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Wyperfeld National Park, Vic

Stems with pods. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Wyperfeld National Park, Vic

Line drawings. c. flowering branch with stem detail. M Moir, M., National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board

Common name

Mallee wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, and shrubland. Western Slopes.

Notes

Shrub or tree 0.5–4 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark fissured. Branchlets angled towards the tips, resinous, densely hairy to almost hairless.  'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 1-4.5 cm long, 1.5-7 mm wide, hairless or sparsely hairy, shiny and/or resinous, tips rounded with a very short point. Flower heads yellow, globular, 4-7 mm in diameter, 20-30 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), single or paired. Flowering: usually August–November. Pods pale fawn-woolly to hairy.

Family was Mimosaceae.

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~montana (accessed 27 April 2021)

World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=m&id=23745&o=1