Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia quadrilateralis
Common name
Heath wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, shrubland, and heath. Coastal north from Ulladulla. Not been seen between Ulladulla and Sydney for many years.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m tall. Sharp-pointed 'leaves'. Bark smooth. Branchlets angled towards the tips, hairless, with obvious lenticels, becoming roughened with old 'leaf' scars. 'Leaves' scattered, often crowded, or clustered in groups of 2-3, 2-8 cm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, 4-angled, surfaces hairless and covered with minute warts, tips sharply pointed. Flower heads pale yellow to cream, globular, 12-30 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 4-7 mm in diameter. Flowers Winter to Spring.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~quadrilateralis (accessed 28 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle photos, line drawings and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=q&id=23800&o=1
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