Acacia crassicarpa, commonly known as thick-podded salwood, lancewood, northern golden wattle or northern wattle,[3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is native to Queensland, Australia and New Guinea. It is a tree with lance-shaped, more or less sickle-shaped phyllodes, spikes of pale to light golden yellow flowers and flat, narrowly oblong to oblong, winged pods.
Acacia crassicarpa is a tree that typically grows to a height of 6–25m (20–82ft) and has bark full of chinks, cracks, or crevices. Its branchlets are glabrous and slightly angular near the end. The phyllodes are lance-shaped to sickle-shaped, 80–270mm (3.1–10.6in) long, 10–45mm (0.39–1.77in) wide and leathery or thinly leathery, with many parallel veins, three veins more prominent than the rest. The flowers are pale yellow to light golden yellow and borne in spikes 30–70mm (1.2–2.8in) long. Flowering occurs between May and September, and the pods are flat, oblong to narrowly oblong, 40–120mm (1.6–4.7in) long, 20–45mm (0.79–1.77in) wide including the wing, more or less straight and sometimes spirally twisted. The seeds are oblong to egg-shaped, black, 5–6mm (0.20–0.24in) long with and aril5–20mm (0.20–0.79in) long.[3][4][5]
Taxonomy
Acacia crassicarpa was first formally described by George Bentham in Hooker'sLondon Journal of Botany from an unpublished manuscript by Allan Cunningham.[6][7] The specific epithet (crassicarpa) means 'thick fruit', referring to the thick woody pods.[3]
1 2 3 4 Kodela, Phillip G.; Maslin, Bruce R.; Tindale, Mary D. Kodela, Phillip G. (ed.). "Acacia crassicarpa". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
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