Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia stenophylla
Common name
Munumula, Balkura, Gurley, Gooralee, Ironwood, Dalby Wattle, River Cooba, River Myall, Belalei, Eumong, Native Willow, Black Wattle, Dunthy, Belalie
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Near rivers, creeks, and swampy areas. Western Slopes.
Notes
Tree or shrub 4–20 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Tendency to sucker. Bark rough, fissured, dark grey-brown. Branchlets angled or flattened towards the tips, hairless or sometimes hairy with fine hairs, often more or less waxy. 'Leaves' alternating down the weeping stems, usually hanging down, 14-40 cm long, 2-10 mm wide, hairless to hairy, margins entire, tips pointed, and straight or curved. Flower heads creamy white to pale yellow, globular, 6–12 mm in diameter, 20–40-flowered, (easiest seen in late buds), in 1-6 flowered clusters. Flowering: March–August. Pods woody, more or less straight, more or less constricted so as to resemble a necklace of beads, breaking readily at the constrictions.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~stenophylla (accessed 28 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings and photos: http://worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=s&id=3556&o=1
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