Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia obliquinervia
Common name
Mountain hickory wattle, Mountain hickory
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Wet and dry forest and shrubby subalpine woodland. Coastal south from Biamanga National Park north of Bega. Ranges, tablelands, and the ACT. Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Tree or shrub to 15 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth. Branchlets angled or flattened towards the tips, commonly glaucous and hairless. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 5-17 cm long, 7-52 mm wide, hairless, midvein prominent and closer to the upper margin, margins more or less prominent, tips blunt, bases with one side longer than the other. 1 marginal gland 0–12 mm above the base. Flower heads yellow, globular, 20-35 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 5-8 mm in diameter, in elongated clusters of 3-16 flower heads, sometimes in branched clusters. Flower stalks hairless. Flowers Winter to Summer.
Family was Mimosaceae.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~obliquinervia (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle photos, line drawings and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=o&id=23757&o=1
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