Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Acacia verniciflua

and 'leaves'. Photographer Don Wood, Yambulla State Forest, south-east of Bombala

Pods and 'leaves'. Photographer Russell Best, near Gisbourne, Vic

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Avoca to Ararat, Vic

Line drawings. as Acacia verniciflua (common variant)). i. flowering branch with stem and flower stalk detail. M Moir, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board

Common name

Varnish wattle, Seymour cinnamon wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Dry forest and woodland, often along rocky streams or on rocky ridges. Western Slopes, Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, ACT, tablelands, and the ranges. Coastal south of Tathra.

Notes

Tree or shrub 1–5 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth, sometimes rough to finely fissured on older trunks. Branchlets cylindrical or slightly angled, often zig-zaggy, hairless, normally sticky to resinous, sometimes with discontinous resin ribs. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 2-12 cm long, 0.5-25 mm wide, hairless, the main nerves sometimes hairy; surfaces usually shiny, or sticky with resin dots, margins hairless or hairy, tips pointed, or blunt with a mucro. Flower heads yellow, globular, 30-60 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 5-12 mm in diameter, in clusters of 1-6 flower heads. Flowers Winter to Spring. Pods resinous.

Family was Mimosaceae.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

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

World Wide Wattle photos, line drawings and description:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=v&id=23860&o=1