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

Pods. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Tree. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, N of Louth, NSW

Bark. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near Innaminka, SA

Common Name

Umbrella Mulga, Turpentine Mulga, Grey Mulga, False Bowgada

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Shrub or small tree to 6m tall. ‘Leaves’ alternating up the stems, 4-18cm long, to 3mm wide, linear and flat, occasionally flattened cylindrical, more or less glaucous, hairy, sometimes sticky, often with a hooked tip. Flower heads yellow, cylindrical, single, the stalks arising from the bases of the 'leaves'.

Description and photos in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales pages 347-348

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

World Wide Wattle line drawings and photos:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=b&id=3246&o=1