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

Buds and 'leaves'. Photographer Joe Stephens, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Shrub. Photographer Joe Stephens, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Hard-leaf Wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Shrub 30cm-3m tall. ‘Leaves’ alternating up the stems, 1-6cm long, 1-5mm wide, flat, occasionally linear, hairless, somewhat scurfy and sticky when young, edges smooth, with a straight point. Flower heads yellow, spherical, single or in pairs, the stalks arising from the bases of the 'leaves'.

Differs from Acacia wilhelmiana in that the branches and 'leaves' are slightly resinous and sticky when young, the more mature branches and 'leaves' never resinous or sticky, and the flower stalks are hairless or hairy.

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 372

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

World Wide Wattle line drawings and photos: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=s&id=11838&o=1