Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia doratoxylon
Common name
Currawang, Spearwood, Lancewood, Caariwan, Coast myall
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Woodland and shrubland, often on rocky slopes (e.g. Molonglo Gorge, ACT). ACT, tablelands, and the Western Slopes. One record from the ranges in Kanangra-Boyd National Park.
Notes
Tree or shrub to 10 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark shallowly fissured and somewhat flaky to corrugated. Branchlets angled towards the tips, hairy to hairless, more or less resinous. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 7-20 cm long, 2-10 mm wide, green or bright green, hairless, with numerous faint longitudinal veins, usually only the central vein prominent, tips pointed with a mucro. Flower heads yellow, cylindrical, 10-35 mm long, in groups of 1-5. Flowers Winter to Spring.
Family was Mimosaceae.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~doratoxylon (accessed 29 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=d&id=23635&o=1
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