Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Acacia pendula

Flowering stem. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Old pods and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Young tree. Photographer Don Wood, Carnarvon Station Bush Heritage Reserve, via Augathella, Qld

Line drawings. f. branch with 'leaf' detail; pod..M Moir, M., National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board

Common name

Weeping Myall, Myall, Boree, Balaar, Nilyah, Silver-leaf Boree, True Myall

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Woodland, shrubland, grassy areas, roadsides, and floodplains. Western Slopes mainly west of the Olympic Highway.

Notes

Tree 5–13 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark hard, fissured, grey to black. Branches weeping. Branchlets angled or flattened, hairy with short fine appressed hairs, becoming hairless with age. ‘Leaves’ alternating up the stems, 4-14 cm long, 3-10 mm wide, densely covered in appressed minute hairs, sparser in older leaves, more or less glaucous, tips usually with a somewhat curved mucro. 1 marginal gland near the base. Flower heads yellow, globular, 3–7 mm in diameter, 10–25-flowered, (easiest seen in late buds), in 2-7 flowered clusters. Pods straight to strongly curved.

Endangered population in the Hunter catchment, north of the area covered by this key. 

Endangered Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, Vic.

Family was Mimosaceae.

NSW Threatened Species profile:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10967 (accessed 3 January 2021)

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~pendula (accessed 3 January 2021)

World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=p&id=20586&o=1