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Barrington Wattle

Acacia barringtonensis

Barrington Wattle
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
NE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia barringtonensis, commonly known as Barrington wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is an erect or spreading shrub or small tree with narrowly elliptic or narrowly oblong phyllodes, spherical heads of golden-yellow flowers and straight or slightly curved pods up to 80 mm (3.1 in) long.

Where it grows

Barrington wattle is found in north eastern New South Wales, commonly in the Great Dividing Range from Gibraltar Range National Park in the north down to Barrington Tops National Park in the south where it is often situated around creeks and among or along the edges of swamps growing in granite or basalt based soils as a part of Eucalyptus woodland communities, usually at altitudes 1,000 m (3,300 ft) or higher.

Other Acacia plants

Acacia abbatiana · Acacia abbreviata · Acacia abrupta · Acacia acanthaster · Harrow Wattle · Acacia acellerata · Gold-dust acacia · Acacia aciphylla · Acacia acoma · Acacia acradenia · Strap Leaved Wattle · Acacia acuaria

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia barringtonensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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