Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Acacia undulifolia

Common name

A wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Forest and woodland in the higher Blue Mountains.

Notes

Shrub to 3 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Branchlets ridged or angled becoming somewhat cylindrical, smooth or with a few small warts, moderately to sparsely hairy. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 1-3.5 cm long, 6-26 mm wide, rotated to 30–60^o from the plane of the branchlets or rarely vertical, surfaces green to grey-green or blue-green, sparsely hairy or hairless, midvein somewhat prominent, margins wavy, tips gradually tapering to a point, or pointed or blunt and with a mucro, 1 gland to 1/8 the length of the 'leaf' above the base.. Flower heads pale yellow, globular, 5-9 mm in diameter, 20-30 flowered (easiest seen in late buds). Flower heads single.

Family was Mimosaceae.

PlantNET description with line drawings and photo:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~undulifolia (accessed 28 April 2021)

World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=u&id=23882&o=1