Acacia orites Pedley

Tree to 30 m high. Stipules obscure or absent. Phyllodes linear, straight or slightly falcate, 10–20 cm long, 4–9 mm wide, with apex sometimes uncinate, thin and pliable, dark green, with 6–9 sparingly anastomosing veins (1–3 more clearly defined than the others); marginal veins conspicuous; gland small, basal or almost so; pulvinus present. Inflorescences with peduncles c. 3 mm long; spikes commonly paired, 3–6 cm long; bracteoles shortly stipitate, peltate-cupular, c. 0.5 mm long, minutely fringed. Flowers loosely packed, 4-merous; sepals united. Pods linear, slightly constricted between seeds, straight, 3–10 cm long, 3.5–5 mm wide, thinly crustaceous, glabrous. Seeds narrowly elliptic, 3.5–4.5 mm long; funicle thick, folded once or twice; aril turbinate.

A component of tall open forest, where it favours the margins of warm temperate rainforest and secondary regrowth stands arising from a major disturbance.

Details of utilisation of Acacia orites are given in J.C. Doran et al., in J.C. Doran & J.W. Turnbull (eds), Australian Trees and Shrubs: Species for Land Rehabilitation and Farm Planting in the Tropics 196–197 (1997).

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.