Indicative distribution
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Scientific name: Acacia notabilis
Profile last updated:
05 Oct 2023
Description
Acacia notabilis is a bushy and spreading, hairless shrub, usually to 3 m tall, with dark reddish-brown branchlets. The thick leathery phyllodes (wattle leaves) are 5 - 15 cm long and 8 - 25 mm wide. The flower-heads are spherical, golden-yellow in colour and are on stalks 3 - 6 mm long. The pods are straight, somewhat leathery, 3 - 7 cm long, 8 - 14 mm wide, and have margins that are sometimes thickened.
Distribution
Occurs west from Menindee in the far western plains of NSW. Early collections come from Byrnedale Station near Menindee and a locality south of Broken Hill. Known in Victoria from two disjunct locations in the central-north and north-west. Common throughout some regions of South Australia.
Habitat and ecology
- Grows in mallee communities and open woodland on stony and rocky hills; soils types include brown lateritic loam, red clay-loam, shallow stony sands and red silty gravely sand.
- Associated species include Eucalyptus camaldulensis, E. gracilis, E. socialis, E. calycogona, E. leptophylla, Melaleuca uncinata, Acacia spp., Sclerolaena diacantha and Beyeria opaca.
- Flowers from July to November and can be grown from seeds.
- Grows as a lower open shrub layer within mallee shrubland, with an open shrub, herb and grass stratum.
- Plant abundance in populations has been recorded as frequent to abundant, with one population forming a dense roadside scrub. Possibly naturalised in New South Wales from plantings around Broken Hill or, if natural, it appears to be now uncommon in New South Wales.
Regional distribution and habitat
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Threats
- Clearing of roadside sites and remnant vegetation within agricultural lands.
- Habitat degradation, particularly in rocky habitats vulnerable to degradation and erosion from feral goats.
Recovery strategies
A Saving Our Species conservation project is currently being developed for this species and will be available soon. For information on how you can contribute to this species' recovery, see the Activities to assist this species section below.
Activities to assist this species
- Investigate the origin of NSW populations and re-assess the conservation status of the species in NSW.
- Initiate monitoring programs at sites that have goat-proof exclosures around populations.
- Prevent further loss of extant populations.
- Investigate regeneration, including seed-set, germination and seedling survival.
- Conduct experimental studies on the effects of fire and grazing disturbance.
- Survey for new populations.
Information sources
- Bowen, P.F. and Pressey, R.L. (1993) Localities and habitats of plants with restricted distributions in the Western Division of New South Wales. Occasional Paper No. 17. (NSW NPWS, Sydney)
- Cheal, P.D.C. (1981) Acacia notabilis. First records for Victoria. The Victorian Naturalist 98(2): 58-59
- Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. and Leigh, J.H. (1992) Plants of Western New South Wales. (Inkata Press, Sydney)
- Hall, N. and Johnson, L.A.S. (1993) The names of acacias of New South Wales - with a guide to pronunciation of botanical names. (Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney)
- Isaacs, J. (1987) Bush food. Aboriginal food and herbal medicine (Weldon Publishing, Sydney)
- Jessop, J.P. (1981) Flora of Central Australia. (Australian Systematic Botany Society, Sydney)
- 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. and Pedley, L. (1982) The distribution of Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) in Australia. Part 1. Species distribution maps. Western Australian Herbarium Research Notes 6: 1-128.
- Maslin, B.R. and Whibley, D.J.E. (1987) The taxonomy of some South Australian Acacia section Phyllodineae species (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Nuytsia 6(1): 19-32
- Mueller, F.J.H. von (1858) Acacia notabilis F. Muell. Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 1: 6-7
- Porteners, M. and Robertson, G. (2003) Threatened Plants in Western New South Wales: Information Review. (NSW NPWS, Hurstville)
- Pressey, R.L., Cohn, J.S. and Porter, J.L. (1990) Vascular plants with restricted distributions in the Western Division of New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 112: 213-227
- Simmons, M.H. (1981) Acacias of Australia. (Nelson, Melbourne)
- Walsh, N.G. and Entwisle, T.J. (1998) Flora of Victoria; Volume 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae. (Inkata Press, Melbourne)
- Whibley, D.J.E. and Symon, D.E. (1992) Acacias of South Australia. Revised Second Edition. (South Australian Government, Adelaide)
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