Dalby myall

Acacia stenophylla, known as Dalby myall or river cooba, is a small evergreen tree in the legume family (Fabaceae) native to inland eastern Australia, especially along seasonal watercourses through Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. It typically reaches 5-15 meters in height, with a slender, often drooping habit and a single or few-stemmed trunk bearing dark grey, deeply fissured bark. Like most Australian acacias the tree lacks true leaves at maturity, instead bearing alternate, narrowly linear phyllodes 15-40 cm long and only 2-5 mm wide; the phyllodes are slightly curved, grey-green, and pendulous, giving the canopy a willow-like appearance. Small globular cream to pale yellow flower heads are arranged in short axillary racemes, each head containing many tiny fragrant flowers. Pods are distinctively moniliform (constricted between the seeds), 10-30 cm long and 8-15 mm wide, contracted into bead-like segments around the dark seeds.