Kybean Wattle

About

Acacia kybeanensis, commonly known as kybean wattle or kybeyan wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-east of continental Australia. It is a dense shrub with hairy branchlets, oblong to narrowly elliptic or lance-shaped phyllodes, spherical heads of bright golden yellow flowers oblong to narrowly oblong, firmly paperypods raised over the seeds.

How to spot it

Acacia kybeanensis is a dense shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–2.5 m (3–8 ft) and has hairy branchlets. The phyllodes are sometimes slightly asymmetric, oblong-elliptic to narrowly elliptic or lance-shaped, 10–50 mm (0.39–1.97 in) long, 3–6 mm (0.12–0.24 in) wide, grey-green to glaucous with a single vein on each side and a gland 1–15 mm (0.039–0.591 in) above the pulvinus. The flowers are borne in four to ten spherical heads on racemes 10–40 mm (0.39–1.57 in) long on peduncles 2–3 mm

Documented on these trails

Found in

• Snowy River National Park — Gippsland & Alpine Victoria hikes