Flowers and 'leaves'. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, E of Hillston

Tree. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, E of Hillston

Common Name

Yarran

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Tree or shrub to 10m tall. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 3-11cm long, 3-13mm wide, flat to flattened cylindrical, hairy or scurfy becoming  hairless, sometimes more or less glaucous, tips blunt or pointed, often with a sort curved point. Flower heads globular, yellow, in pairs or 3s, the stalks arising at the bases of the 'leaves'. Endangered Vic. Threatened plant list Vic. Acacia homalophylla in NSW.

Description and photo (as Acacia homalophylla) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 363

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

World Wide Wattle line drawings and photos (as Acacia homalophylla):   http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=h&id=-1551&o=1