Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia spectabilis
Common name
Mudgee wattle, Pilliga wattle, Glory wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and heath. Western Slopes north from the Wagga Wagga district. Naturalised Sydney area to Richmond.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 6 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth. Branchlets more or less cylindrical, with obscure ridges, hairy or hairless, often glaucous. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, stalks hairless or hairy, usually 1 inconspicuous gland at or near the base of the lowest pair of pinnae. Rachis 1-8.5 cm long, hairless or hairy, jugary and interjugary glands absent or rarely one gland at the top of the rachis. 4-14 pinnae 0.5–3.5 cm long, each with 4-16 leaflets each 0.5-1.6 cm long, 2.5-7 mm wide, surfaces hairless. Flower heads golden, globular, 6-10 mm in diameter, 12-35 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), in elongated clusters of 7-45 flower heads. Flowering: chiefly July–November.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~spectabilis (accessed 28 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=s&id=23832&o=1
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