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Acacia chrysotricha Tindale
Family Fabaceae
Subfamily Mimosoideae
Common name: Bellinger River wattle, Newry golden wattle

Acacia chrysotricha Tindale APNI*

Description: Erect tree usually 6–15 m high; bark finely or deeply fissured, grey to red-brown; branchlets ± terete with low ridges, densely yellowish-hairy at first, later the hairs greyish or fawn.

Leaves ± sessile on pulvinus, with petiole to 0.1 cm long above pulvinus; rachis 5–14 cm long, densely hairy, circular jugary glands irregularly present at the lowest 1–3 pairs and/or upper 1–3 pairs of pinnae, interjugary glands absent or rarely an odd one present; pinnae 8–18 pairs, 1–4.7 cm long; pinnules mostly 12–25 pairs (6 or more on basal pinnae), oblong to narrowly oblong, elliptic-oblong or ± lanceolate, recurved when dry, mostly 3–4.5 mm long and 1–1.5 mm wide, with fine white or golden hairs mainly on margins and midvein.

Inflorescences in axillary and terminal racemes and panicles; peduncles 3–6 mm long, golden-hairy; heads globose, 15–30-flowered, 4–7 mm diam., bright yellow.

Pods straight to slightly curved, ± flat, mostly barely to slightly constricted between seeds, 3–10 cm long, 4–6 mm wide, firmly papery thinly leathery, with long fine hairs; seeds longitudinal; funicle ± encircling the seed.


Illustration
L. Elkan

Habit
Photo A.E. Orme

Flower
Photo J. Plaza

Fruit
Photo A.E. Orme

Other photo
Photo T.M. Tame

Flowering: July–August.

Distribution and occurrence: Brierfield and Newry State Forest area (inland from Macksville); rare.

Grows in rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest, in steep narrow gullies, in quartzite soils.
NSW subdivisions: NC

Threatened species: NSW BCA: Endangered
AVH map***

The name refers to the coarse golden hairs on the branchlets.

Text by P.G. Kodela (last update 2004)
Taxon concept: P.G. Kodela & G.J. Harden, Flora of NSW Vol. 2 (2002)


APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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