Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia rhigiophylla
Common name
Dagger-leaved wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and shrubland. Western Slopes, mainly in the West Wyalong district.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m high or prostrate. Sharp-pointed 'leaves'. Stipules rigid, more or less spiny, to 2 mm long. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth, brown. Branchlets more or less cylindrical, more or less hairy. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 0.7–3 cm long, 1–4 mm wide, rigid, 4-angled, 3-angled, or flattened in cross section, with 3–7 longitudinal veins (equally prominent or several more prominent than the rest). Flower heads bright yellow, 5–13 mm long, 6–15-flowered (easiest seen in late buds), more or less oval or cylindrical. Flower heads 1-2 together, on stalks 0–2 mm long. Flowering: September–October. Pods strongly curved to loosely coiled..
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~rhigiophylla (accessed 28 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings and photos: http://worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=r&id=23807&o=1
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