Acacia doratoxylon A.Cunn., in B.Field, Geogr. Mem. New South Wales 345 (1825)
Currawang and many more, fide G.M.Cunningham, Pl. W New South Wales 349 (1981)
Single-stemmed shrub or tree to 10 m high. Bark corrugated, dark greyish brown to black on trunk. Branchlets angular towards apices, yellow-brown to red-brown, glabrous, ±resinous. Phyllodes linear, flat, mostly straight or slightly curved, 7–20 cm long, 2–8(–10) mm wide, with recurved or oblique apices, coriaceous, glabrous, with 1 prominent and usually 2 subprominent main veins continuous to base, the minor veins 7–10 per mm, parallel, rarely anastomosing; gland mostly 1, rudimentary, basal. Spikes 1.4–3.5 cm long, golden. Flowers mostly 5-merous; calyx 0.7–1.1 mm long, cut to 1/6–1/4, densely pubescent; corolla 1.2–2.1 mm long, cut to 1/4–1/2, glabrous; ovary ±pubescent or glabrous. Pods linear, slightly moniliform, 5–10 cm long, ±coriaceous, longitudinally wrinkled, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, elliptic-oblong, 3–5 mm long, black; pleurogram without halo; areole open.
Widespread and common on the western slopes and plains of N.S.W., S of 30ºS and E of 144º19’E, extending to southern tablelands of N.S.W and A.C.T. and Ovens Ra., Vic. Grows in open woodland or open forest in skeletal rocky soils, often on ridges or hillsides and on flat or undulating land, with mallee eucalypts in red earths. Flowers: late Aug.–late Sept. in the north and mid-Sept.–Nov. in the south.
Closely related to A. caroleae but distinguished by its densely pubescent calyx and commonly broader phyllodes with apices normally gently recurved or oblique. See also A. anastema , A. petraea and A. conniana .
Type of accepted name
On Pine-ridges [on the] Macquarie River, [N.S.W.], A.Cunningham ; holo: K.
Illustrations
F.Mueller, Iconogr. Austral. Acacia dec. 10 [pl. 1] (1888); J.H.Maiden, Forest Fl. New South Wales 4(7): pl. 141 (1910); M.Simmons, Acacias Australia 1: 263 & pls 18 & 31 (1987).
Representative collections
N.S.W.: ‘Curraweena’, N of Cobar, E.D’Arnay 680 & K.Wells (CANB, NSW); Snowy R., 47 km SSW of Jindabyne, R.Coveny 5426 (A, AD, BRI, CANB, K, L, LE, MEL, NSW, UC, US); 24.9 km NNE of Tullibigeal, R.Coveny 12067 & P.Hind (AD, B, BRI, K, MO, NSW, TL, US); 25.4 km NW of Girilambone on road to Bourke, R.G.Coveny 12275 & J.Dalby (B, BRI, MEL, MO, NSW, TL, Z). A.C.T.: Molonga Gorge, P.J.Darbyshire 495 (CANB n.v ., NSW). Vic.: 15.5 miles [24.8 km] from Springhurst along Cemetery Rd toward Eldorado, E.M.Canning 251 (CANB, NSW).
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