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Bellinger River Wattle

Acacia chrysotricha

Also called Newry Golden Wattle

Bellinger River Wattle
Photo: Lachlan Copeland, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
NE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia chrysotricha, commonly known as Bellinger River wattle or Newry golden wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales, Australia. It is a tree with grey to reddish brown bark, densely hairy branchlets, bipinnate leaves with 12 to 18 pairs of leaflets, each with 12 to 25 pairs of pinnules, spherical heads of bright yellow to golden yellow flowers and straight to slightly curved, thinly leathery pods.

Where it grows

Bellinger River wattle is endemic to a small area in the north eastern corner of New South Wales within the Brierfield and Newry State Forest area inland from Macksville, where it often grows in steep, narrow gullies in quartzite based soils in tall open forest communities or in rainforest.

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 chrysotricha 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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