Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia schinoides
Common name
Green cedar wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Wet forest and along streams north from Lane Cove River.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 10 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth or finely fissured. Branchlets more or less cylindrical, obscurely ridged, hairless, glaucous. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 1 raised round gland about 1/3 to 2/3 of the way along the stalk below the basal pinnae. Rachis 1.5-10.5 cm long, hairless, 1 jugary gland usually present between the uppermost pair of pinnae and rarely between the next pair of pinnae (sometime absent from some leaves), interjugary glands absent. 4-14 pinnae 4-13 cm long, each with 20-56 leaflets 0.5-2.3 cm long, 1-5 mm wide, surfaces hairless or often with a few appressed hairs on the margins. Flower heads pale yellow, globular, 5-10 mm in diameter, 27-50 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), in elongated or branched clusters. Flowering: mainly August–February.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~schinoides (accessed 28 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=s&id=23819&o=1
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