Family: Mimosaceae

Scientific name: Acacia verniciflua

Common Name: Varnished Wattle

Distribution: Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia

General Information: Shrub to small tree, phyllodes elliptical, shiny, sticky with two prominent veins, spherical flower heads on short peduncles.

Specimen: Mountain River, Tasmania, 2009.

Source: Gray, A 1990 'A Field Key to Native and Naturalised Acacia Species in Tasmania', Greening Australia, Hobart.