Acacia dorothea
Acacia dorothea, commonly known as Dorothy's wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a shrub with hairy branchlets, ascending to erect, narrowly erect phyllodes, oblong to short cylindrical heads of bright golden yellow flowers and narrowly oblong pods with silvery white hairs.
Description
Acacia dorothea is a shrub that typically grows to a height of, often forms suckers and has branchlets covered with fine, white hairs pressed against the surface. Its phyllodes are ascending to erect, narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide with a prominent midrib and a rather prominent gland usually above the base of the phyllode. The flowers are borne in oblong or shortly cylindrical heads in racemes long, the heads on peduncles long with 20 to 25 bright golden yellow flowers. Flowering occurs from August to October, and the pods are narrowly oblong, thinly leathery, straight to slightly curved, up to long, about wide and covered with more or less silky, silvery white hair.
Taxonomy
Acacia dorothea was first formally described in 1901 by Joseph Maiden in the journal Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. The specific epithet honours Maiden's daughter "Acacia Dorothy Maiden, ".
Dorothy's wattle grows in sand or loam over sandstone, in Eucalyptus forest, woodland or scrub on plateaus, ridge tops and in steep gullies, from the Newnes district to near Robertson.