Flowers and 'leaves'. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, east of Shark Bay, WA

Flowers and 'leaves'. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, near Wyandra, Qld

Tree. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, E of Shark Bay, WA

Common Name

Murray’s Wattle, Sandplain Wattle, Colony Wattle, Powder Bark Wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Shrub or small tree to 8m tall. ‘Leaves’ alternating up the stems, 5-18cm long, 1.5-12mm wide, linear to flat, green to glaucous, hairless, usually blunt with a minute curved point. Flowers heads yellow, globular, in 2-10 headed racemes, the stalks arisng from the bases of the 'leaves'.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales pages 367-368

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~murrayana

World Wide Wattle line drawings and photos:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=m&id=3452&o=1