Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Acacia penninervis var. penninervis
Mountain hickory, Hickory wattle
Fabaceae
Wet and dry forest and woodland. Western Slopes, ACT, tablelands, and ranges. Occasionally coastal north from Sydney.
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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