Acacia mearnsii

Black Wattle at Molonglo Valley, ACT

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Identification history

	Acacia mearnsii	26 Jan 2019	MichaelMulvaney
	Acacia mearnsii	29 Nov 2018	galah681

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BettyDonWood wrote:

30 Nov 2018

Flowering now, local plants are almost certainly Acacia mearnsii. One of the important diagnostics for wattles with true leaves is the glands along the main stalk of the leaf (rachis). In mearnsii they occur at the bases of the secondary leaf stalks (pinnae) and also between them. Your photos are not clear enough even when blown up to show this character. Could you provide field notes or an additional photo.
About Acacia flowers. It is far more useful fo ID purposes to have a photo of a bud clear enough that a rough count of the individual flowers can be made. All a photo of open flower heads shows is the colour.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.066691 -35.285990
Altitude 615.2m
Maps Sth Tablelands Ecosystem Park
Places Molonglo Valley, ACT

Sighting information

At least 1 Abundance
29 Nov 2018 10:48 AM Recorded on
galah681 Recorded by
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galah681 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Wattles Plants

Additional information

True In flower
1 metre to 5 metres Plant height

Species information

Acacia mearnsii Scientific name
Black Wattle Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 930m Recorded at altitude
Machine learning
In flower
Ngunnawal language
Nummerak

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