Flowers and 'leaves'. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Flowers and 'leaves'. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Flowers and 'leaves'. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, 133km east of Tibooburra, NSW

Shrubs. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer A Lyne, Pine Creek Crossing, NSW

Common Name

Needle Wattle, Purple-wood Wattle, Dead Finish

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Shrub or small tree to 5m tall. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 2-9cm long, 1-2mm wide, almost linear, quadrangular in cross-section, hairy to hairless, margins hairy, with sharp-pointed tips. Flower heads bright yellow, spherical, single, the stalks arising from the bases of the 'leaves'. Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Protected NSW. Vulnerable SA.

Description and photo (as Acacia carnei) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 357

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

NSW Department of Environment & Heritage profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10007

World Wide Wattle line drawings and photos:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=c&id=23595&o=1