Acacia prominens A.Cunn. ex Don, Gen. Hist. 2: 406 (1832)
Gosford Wattle , Golden Rain Wattle , Grey Sally and others
Dense shrub or tree 5–9 m high, sometimes 20–25 m high. Branchlets slender, angled at extremities, glabrous. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong-elliptic, 3–6 cm long, 5–12 mm wide, l:w = 4–9, normally obtuse-mucronulate to subacute, thin, grey-green to glaucous, glabrous except pulvinus sparsely hairy, 1-nerved per face, finely penninerved; gland prominent, normally exserted, 5–20 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences racemose; raceme axes 1.5–6 cm long, slender, glabrous; peduncles 5–7 mm long, slender, glabrous; heads showy, globular, 7–16-flowered, lemon yellow. Flowers 5-merous; sepals united; ovary glabrous. Pods stipitate, to 10 cm long, 9–12 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, pruinose, glabrous. Seeds mostly longitudinal, oblong to elliptic, 5–6 mm long, shiny, black; aril clavate.
Confined to creek banks and forests of near coastal areas from Gosford to near Singleton, N.S.W.
Confusion surrounding the name A. prominens , A. fimbriata and A. linifolia was discussed by J.H.Maiden, Forest Fl. New South Wales 5: 29- 34 (1911), and V.S. Summerhayes, Bot. Mag . 155: t. 9256 (1931). The description of A. prominens in G. Bentham, Fl. Austral. 2: 371 (1864) included elements of A. fimbriata .
Related to A. kettlewelliae which is distinguished especially by its generally longer or narrower phyllodes (l:w normally 8–13), glands submerged within the lamina and shorter peduncles. Also related to A. covenyi .
Type of accepted name
‘Native of New South Wales’; n.v.
Synonymy
Acacia linifolia var. prominens (A.Cunn. ex Don) C.Moore & Betche, Handb. Fl. New South Wales 166 (1893). Type: as for accepted name.
Acacia prominens var. latifolia Benth., Linnaea 26: 620 (1855). Type: Darling R., F.Mueller s.n .; holo: K.
Acacia cephalobotrya F.Muell., pro syn. sub A. prominens , fide G.Bentham, loc. cit.
Acacia praetervisa Domin, Biblioth. Bot . 89: 256 (1926). Type: Australia felix [Victoria, 1853], F.Mueller s.n .; syn: K; Darling R., F.Mueller s.n. ; syn: K; Sydney, N.S.W., Clowes ; syn: K; Herbarium of the U.S. Exploring Expedition under Capt. Wilkes; syn: K; New South Wales, C.Huegel ; syn: K.
Acacia prominens var. typica Domin, loc. cit. , nom. inval .
[ Acacia lunata auct. non G.Lodd.: F.J.H. von Mueller, Pl. Victoria 2: 17 (1863) p.p. , see J.H.Maiden, Forest Fl. New South Wales 5: 63 (1911)]
Illustrations
J.H.Maiden, op. cit. , pl. 161; E.R.Rotherham et al. , Fl. & Pl. New South Wales & S Queensland 82 (1975); M.D.Tindale, Telopea 1: 436, pl. 20a- b (1980), gland; M.Simmons, Acacias Australia 125 (1981); T.Tame, Acacias SE Australia 165, fig. 185, pl. 185 (1992).
Representative collections
N.S.W.: Darkey Ck, Putty- Singleton road, 9 Sept. 1948, E.F. Constable s.n. (NSW, MO); Oatley, Aug. 1888, J.H.Maiden (NSW); Narara, West Gosford, 18 Jan. 1906, A.Murphy s.n . (NSW).
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