Acacia dolichophylla
Acacia dolichophylla, also known as Chewings Range wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the Northern Territory of Australia. It is a bushy shrub with finely ribbed branchlets, narrowly elliptic phyllodes, spherical heads of pale yellow to light golden yellow flowers and linear, more or less papery pods.
Description
Acacia dolichophylla is a bushy shrub that typically grows to a height of, sometimes to and has smooth, greyish bark and finely ribbed branchlets. Its phyllodes are flat, narrowly linear long and wide with three raised veins. The flowers are borne in up to five spherical heads in racemes long on peduncles long, each head about in diameter with about 25 pale yellow to light golden yellow flowers. Flowering has been recorded in March, April and from June to September, and the pods are linear, flat, slightly raised over and constricted between the seeds, up to long, wide and more or less papery. The seeds are elliptic, long and lack an aril.Taxonomy
Acacia dolichophylla was first formally described in 1980 by the botanist Bruce Maslin in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens from specimens collected from Mount Giles. The specific epithet refers to the very long phyllodes.This wattle is similar is appearance to A. praelongata and A. estrophiolata and is related to A. tenuior.