Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Acacia dorothea
Dorothy's wattle
Fabaceae
Dry forest, woodland, and shrubland. Coast between west of Kiama and west of Wollongong. Ranges and tablelands north from Kangaroo Valley.
Shrub to 5 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth. Branchlets angled towards the tips, sparsely to densely hairy. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 4-9.5 cm long, 5-20 mm wide, 'leaves' more or less straight to slightly curved, surfaces appressed-hairy with fine hairs, sometimes becoming hairless with age, grey-green, midvein and marginal veins prominent, tips pointed with an oblique or hooked mucro. A more or less prominent gland 10–40 mm above the base and often at the slightly notched margin, sometimes absent from some 'leaves'. Flower heads 5-8 mm long, bright yellow, oval to shortly cylindrical, 12-30 flowered, in elongated clusters of 3-8 flower heads. Flowers Winter to Spring. Pods densely hairy with silvery white hairs.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description with photos: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~dorothea (accessed 29 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=d&id=23636&o=1
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