Newry Golden Wattle - profile

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Scientific name: Acacia chrysotricha

Conservation status in NSW: Endangered

Commonwealth status: Not listed

Gazetted date: 07 Jul 2000

Profile last updated: 14 Jun 2020

Description

Newry Golden Wattle is a tree up to 6-15 m tall with densely hairy branchlets and grey to red-brown, finely or deeply fissured bark. The leaves are feathery and 'wattle'-like, dark green above, pale beneath, and hairy. The round, yellow flower heads are present from July-August. The seed pod is straight to slightly curved, 3-10 cm long and 4-6 mm wide, black-brown with long dense hairs and a thickened edge. Each seed has a distinctive stalk encircling it.

Distribution

Restricted to an area south of Bellingen on the NSW north coast.

Habitat and ecology

An understorey species on rainforest edges and in wet or dry eucalypt forest in steep narrow gullies on quartzite soils.
Newry Golden Wattle is relatively short-lived. The seeds which remain in the soil require heat from fire to induce germination.
Too-frequent fire may lead to a decline in the population, as gradual exhaustion of the soil-borne seed bank will result, with no replacement of adult plants over time.

Regional distribution and habitat

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NSW North Coast

Threats

Invasion of habitat by introduced weeds.
Logging activities.
Inappropriate fire regime including high frequency fire or long between fire intervals.
Habitat clearing for agricultrual development.
Damage during road development and maintenance works.
Susceptible to extinction via stochastic processes due to its restricted distribution.
Susceptible to extinction via stochastic processes due to its small known population size.
Clearing of habitat for development.
Illegal seed collection.

Recovery strategies

A targeted strategy for managing this species has been developed under the Saving Our Species program; click here for details. For more information on the Saving Our Species program click here

Activities to assist this species

Apply appropriate fire regimes for the habitat in which the species occurs.
Control invasive weeds within areas of known habitat.
Protect areas of habitat from timber harvesting activities.
Maintain viable ex-situ seedbank.
Raise community and landholder awareness of the species and its habitat requirements.
Protect roadside populations form distrubance.
Monitor known populations including threats to the species.
Undertake research into the ecological requirements of the species including its fire ecology.
Investigate the need for translocation if known populations are in decline.

Information sources

Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water NSW (2010) Northern Rivers Regional Biodiversity Management Plan.
Kodela, P.G. and Harden, G.J. (2002) Acacia. Pp 381-476 in Harden, G.J. (ed.) Flora of New South Wales. Volume 2. Revised Edition (New South Wales University Press, Sydney)
Maslin, B.R. (2001) Flora of Australia 11A. A.E. Orchard and A.J.G. Wilson ed. P. 228. (CSIRO Publishing and ABRS, Canberra)
NSW Scientific Committee (2000) Acacia chrysotricha (a tree) - Endangered species determination - final.
Tindale, M.D. (1966) New taxa of Acacia from Eastern Australia. No. 1. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbariumin 4(1): 20