Acacia georgensis Tindale
Acacia georgensis Tindale
Dr George Mountain Wattle
Fabaceae
Occurs on the South Coast and adjacent tablelands, N.S.W., from Wadbilliga Ck to Tathra.
Shrub to tree, 3–12 m high. Bark fissured or shaggy-furrowed. Upper branchlets angled towards apices, otherwise terete, smooth, sometimes red-squamulose, often pruinose. Phyllodes somewhat dimorphic, straight and dimidiate (young) maturing falcate and very narrowly elliptic, 6–15 cm long, 7–15 (–30) mm wide, coriaceous, red-squamulose when young, with 3 main prominent and 2 subprominent nerves continuous to base; minor nerves rarely anastomosing, 4–7 (–8) per mm; gland 1, 1–3 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences racemose; raceme axes 0.5–8 (–12) mm long. Spikes (1–) 2–3.5 cm long, pale yellow. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 0.4–0.6 mm long, dissected to 1/10, with pale yellow- or white-hyaline hairs on tube (especially near base) and minute red-resin hairs on lobes (mainly at apices); corolla 1.6–2 mm long, divided almost to base, glabrous; ovary densely white-pubescent. Pods linear, slightly constricted and raised over seeds, 2–6.5 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong-elliptic, 3–4.5 mm long, black; areole open.
Flowers Aug.–Oct.
Grows on hillsides facing N or W or on rocky headlands in open forest or in sclerophyll scrub, mainly on granite or rhyolite.
N.S.W.: Dr George Mtn, 6 km c. E of Bega on Bermagui Rd, R.G.Coveny 7306 (AD, BRI, CANB, MEL, NSW, PERTH, US); Kianinny Bay, S of Tathra, M.Parris 8864 (CANB, NSW); Wadbilliga Ck, 13 km NW of Yowrie, A.N.Rodd 4316 (AD, CANB, NSW).
Data derived from Flora of Australia Volumes 11A (2001), 11B (2001) and 12 (1998), products of ABRS, ©Commonwealth of Australia
Dr M.D.Tindale and Dr P.G.Kodela with the assistance of M.Bedward, S.J.Davies, C.Herscovitch, D.A.Keith and/or D.A.Morrison
Minor edits by B.R.Maslin & J.Rogers
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