Acacia doreta Maslin

Multi-stemmed shrub or small tree 1.5–5 m high, crowns ±flat-topped to sub-rounded. Bark ‘Minni Ritchi’, red to red-brown, commonly extending to the upper branchlets. Branchlets glabrous. Phyllodes terete or sub-terete, (15–) 20–60 (–70) mm long, 0.8–1.5 mm diam., apices terminated by a hard, innocuous point, mostly shallowly to strongly incurved, subrigid, ascending to erect, normally glabrous, resinous; finely multi-striate with ±obscure veins. Inflorescences simple; peduncles mostly 8–22 mm long; flowers in globular or obloid heads or cylindrical spikes, 5–22 mm long, light golden. Flowers 5-merous; calyx gamosepalous, shortly dissected into triangular lobes, ½–¾ length of corolla. Pods narrowly oblong to linear, flat, 15–50 (–70) mm long, 2.5–5 mm wide, thinly coriaceous-crustaceous, brown, glabrous, valves deflexed along outer rim to form a narrow, perpendicular edge that is same colour as valve face. Seeds longitudinal to oblique, obloid to ellipsoid, 2–4 (–5) mm long, 1.5–2 (–2.5) mm wide dark brown to black but normally dull yellow at centre, sometimes obscurely mottled dull yellow, arillate.

Occurs in a variety of habitats but often in skeletal soil on the slopes of rocky hills or on often stony plains in sandy loam. Commonly forms monotypic stands.