Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia penninervis var. penninervis
Common name
Mountain hickory, Hickory wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Wet and dry forest and woodland. Western Slopes, ACT, tablelands, and ranges. Occasionally coastal north from Sydney.
Notes
Tree or shrub to 8 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark finely or deeply fissured. Branchlets more or less cylindrical, hairless, sometimes glaucous. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 4-16 cm long, 5-40 mm wide, hairless, midvein and marginal veins prominent, midvein central, tips pointed to blunt. A prominent gland in a notch on 'leaf' margin 5-30 mm above the base of the 'leaves', connected to the midvein by a fine oblique vein pointing towards the 'leaf' stalk. Flower heads pale yellow to white, globular, 15-35 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 6-10 mm in diameter, in elongated clusters of 3-30 flower heads, sometimes in branched clusters. Flower stalks with sparse fawn hairs or no hairs. Flowers all year, mainly Dec-Jan. in the ACT.
Family was Mimosaceae.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Victoria.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~penninervis (accessed 28 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle photos, line drawings and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=p&id=23771&o=1
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