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

'Leaf' with gland oozing liquid. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

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

Common Name

Mallee Golden Wattle, Flinders Wattle, Stiff Golden Wattle, Notable Wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Shrub to 3m tall. ‘Leaves’ alternating up the stems, flat, 5-15cm long, 5-25mm wide, hairless, more or less glaucous, tips usually obtuse. Flower heads yellow, globular, in 4-15 headed racemes, the stalks arisng from the bases of the 'leaves'. Endangered NSW. Protected NSW, Vulnerable Vic. Possibly introduced to NSW.

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

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

NSW Department of Environment & Heritage profile:
  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10019

World Wide Wattle line drawings and photos:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=n&id=23756&o=1