Source: WorldWideWattle ver. 2.
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B.R. Maslin

Source: WorldWideWattle ver. 2.
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J. & M. Simmons

Source: Australian Plant Image Index (a.31009).

ANBG © M. Fagg, 2000

Source: Australian Plant Image Index (dig.31670).

ANBG © M. Fagg, 2013

Source: Australian Plant Image Index (dig.32763).

ANBG © M. Fagg, 2014

Source: Australian Plant Image Index (dig.32762).

ANBG © M. Fagg, 2014

Source: Australian Plant Image Index (dig.40759).

ANBG © M. Fagg, 2015

Source: Australian Plant Image Index (a.31010).

ANBG © M. Fagg, 2000

Source: Australian Plant Image Index (a.31011).

ANBG © M. Fagg, 2001

Source: Australian Plant Image Index (a.31218).

ANBG © M. Fagg, 2000

Source: Australian Plant Image Index (dig.32764).

ANBG © M. Fagg, 2014

Source: Australian Plant Image Index (dig.32765).

ANBG © M. Fagg, 2014

Source: Australian Plant Image Index (dig.32766).

ANBG © M. Fagg, 2014

Source: Australian Plant Image Index (dig.32767).

ANBG © M. Fagg, 2014

Source: Australian Plant Image Index (dig.4864).

ANBG © M. Fagg, 2007

Source: Australian Plant Image Index (dig.4865).

ANBG © M. Fagg, 2007

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See illustration.

Source: WorldWideWattle ver. 2.
Published at: www.worldwidewattle.com

See illustration.

Acacia dawsonii occurrence map.

Occurrence map generated via Atlas of Living Australia (https://www.ala.org.au).

Common Name

Poverty Wattle, Mitta Wattle, Dawson’s Wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Distribution

Occurs primarily on the N.S.W. and A.C.T. tablelands but extends to Mitta Mitta in Vic. and to Stanthorpe area in Qld.

Description

Shrub or occasionally tree 1–4 m high. Branchlets densely appressed-puberulous between the prominent resinous ribs. Phyllodes ascending to erect, linear to narrowly elliptic, straight to shallowly incurved, (3.5-) 5–11 (–14) cm long, (2–) 3–8 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, with up to 10 slightly raised subdistant ±resinous main nerves of which 1–2 (-3) are more prominent than the rest, with occasional to frequent anastomoses between main nerves; gland single. Inflorescences 4–6-headed racemes; raceme axes 5–25 mm long, appressed-puberulous; peduncles 1–4 mm long, appressed-puberulous; heads depressed-globular, 3–4 mm diam., 4–8 (-10)-flowered, light golden, subtended by broad thick outer bracteoles. Flowers 5‑merous; sepals united only basally. Pods linear, straight or slightly curved, to 6 cm long, 2–5 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, smooth, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, black; aril apical.

Habitat

Grows in poor, drier soils, often rocky and/or with high clay fraction, mostly in eucalypt woodland.

Specimens

Qld: Amiens near Stanthorpe, Harslett in G.Ward 287 (BRI n.v.). N.S.W.: Capertee, Sept. 1915, J.L.Boorman (C, NSW, PERTH); Cherry Tree Hill, c. 32 km NNW of Inverell, W.McReadie (NSW121810). A.C.T.: Molonglo Gorge, Kowen District, R.Pullen 2900 (MEL, NSW). Vic.: Mitta Mitta R., 2 km S of Mitta Mitta P.O., 3 June 1962, A.B.Court & J.H.Willis (MEL).

Notes

Seemingly related to A. farinosa which has thick, linear-oblanceolate phyllodes with the nerves immersed, as well as non-racemose inflorescences and usually more flowers in the heads, see R.S.Cowan & B.R.Maslin, Nuytsia 10: 79 (1995), for further details. The few-flowered heads of A. dawsonii with the subtending, broad and thick, outer bracteoles are similar to those of A. covenyi which differs in all other respects. Superficially similar to A. elongata.

FOA Reference

Data derived from Flora of Australia Volumes 11A (2001), 11B (2001) and 12 (1998), products of ABRS, ©Commonwealth of Australia

Author

R.S.Cowan, B.R.Maslin

Minor edits by B.R.Maslin & J.Reid