Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Acacia dorothea

Dried specimen collected by JH Maiden, Mt Victoria, 1898. © Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany. USA 

Common name

Dorothy's wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, and shrubland. Coast between west of Kiama and west of Wollongong. Ranges and tablelands north from Kangaroo Valley.

Notes

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