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

B.R. Maslin

Source: Australian Plant Image Index (a.10046).

ANBG © M. Fagg, 1991

Source: Australian Plant Image Index (dig.22101).

ANBG © M. Fagg, 2011

Source: Australian Plant Image Index (dig.22102).

ANBG © M. Fagg, 2011

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

See illustration.

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

See illustration.

Acacia prominens occurrence map.

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

Common Name

Gosford Wattle, Golden Rain Wattle, Grey Sally and others

Family

Fabaceae

Distribution

Confined to creek banks and forests of near coastal areas from Gosford to near Singleton, N.S.W.

Description

Dense shrub or tree 5–9 m high, sometimes 20–25 m high. Branchlets slender, angled at extremities, glabrous. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong-elliptic, 2.5–6 cm long, 4–12 mm wide, l:w = 4–9, normally obtuse-mucronulate to subacute, thin, grey-green to glaucous, glabrous except pulvinus sparsely hairy, 1-nerved per face, finely penninerved; gland prominent, normally exserted, (3–) 5–20 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences racemose; raceme axes 1.5–8 cm long, slender, glabrous; peduncles 3–7 mm long, slender, glabrous; heads showy, globular, 7–16-flowered, pale yellow to lemon yellow. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united; ovary glabrous. Pods stipitate, to 10 cm long, (8–) 9–13 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, pruinose, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal to oblique, oblong to elliptic, 5–6 mm long, ±shiny, black; aril clavate.

Specimens

N.S.W.: Darkey Ck, Putty–Singleton road, 9 Sept. 1948, E.F.Constable s.n. (NSW, MO); Oatley, Aug. 1888, J.H.Maiden (NSW); Narara, West Gosford, 18 Jan. 1906, A.Murphy s.n. (NSW).

Notes

Confusion surrounding the name A. prominens, A. fimbriata and A. linifolia was discussed by J.H.Maiden, Forest Fl. New South Wales 5: 29–34 (1911), and V.S.Summerhayes, Bot. Mag. 155: t. 9256 (1931). The description of A. prominens in G. Bentham, Fl. Austral. 2: 371 (1864) included elements of A. fimbriata.

Related to A. kettlewelliae which is distinguished especially by its generally longer or narrower phyllodes (l:w normally 8–13), glands submerged within the lamina and shorter peduncles. Also related to A. covenyi.

FOA Reference

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

Author

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

B.R.Maslin