Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Acacia subtilinervis

Flowering stems and 'leaves'. Photographer Don Wood, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra

Flowering stems. Photographer Jackie Miles

Leafy stems with young pods. Photographer Jackie Miles

Shrub, photographer Jackie Miles, near Mogo south of Batemans Bay

Line drawing. h. flowering branch with 'leaf' detail. M Moir, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board

Common name

Net-veined wattle, Stiff-leaf wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Dry forest and heath on hillsides and rocky outcrops, sometimes near streams. Coast and ranges. Tablelands north from Goulburn.

Notes

Tree or shrub to 5.5 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth, somewhat fibrous, or finely fissured. Branchlets more or less cylindrical, hairless, more or less resinous, at first covered with resin hairs towards the tips. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 5-19.5 cm long, 3-16 mm wide, leathery, surfaces hairless, midvein prominent, tips blunt or pointed, often with a mucro. Flower heads yellow, oval to cylindrical, 10-30 mm long, single or in pairs. Flowers Winter to Summer.

Family was Mimosaceae.

Vulnerable Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~subtilinervis (accessed 28 December, 2020)

World Wide Wattle line drawings and description:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=s&id=23842&o=1