Flowers and 'leaves'. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, near Dubbo, NSW

Flowers and 'leaves'. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Loughnan Nature Reserve, NSW

Pods and 'leaves'. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Loughnan Nature Reserve, NSW

Common Name

Streaked Wattle, Narrow Lined-leaved Acacia

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Shrub to 2m tall. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 0.7-2cm long, 1-3mm wide, more or less linear, hairless to hairy, sticky, often with a curved point, sometimes almost hooked. Flower heads globular, yellow, single or in pairs, the stalks arising from the bases of the 'leaves'. Rare SA. Rare Vic.

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 page 365

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

World Wide Wattle line drawings and photos:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=l&id=23720&o=1