WATTLE

Acacia aphylla Maslin

J. & M. Simmons

Source: Australian Plant Image Index (a.30935).

ANBG © M. Fagg, 2001

Source: Australian Plant Image Index (dig.15223).

ANBG © M. Fagg, 2007

Source: Australian Plant Image Index (dig.31554).

ANBG © M. Fagg, 2013

Source: Australian Plant Image Index (dig.31555).

ANBG © M. Fagg, 2013

Source: Australian Plant Image Index (dig.4938).

ANBG © M. Fagg, 2007

Source: Australian Plant Image Index (dig.4939).

ANBG © M. Fagg, 2007

Source: Australian Plant Image Index (dig.657).

ANBG © M. Fagg, 2005

B.R. Maslin

B.R. Maslin

B.R. Maslin

Acacia aphylla occurrence map.

Occurrence map generated via Atlas of Living Australia (https://www.ala.org.au).

Leafless Rock Wattle

Fabaceae

Known only from one population in the Darling Ra. E of Perth and from near Northam, south-western W.A.

Divaricately branched shrub to 2.3 m high. Branchlets rigid, terete, very obscurely ribbed, smooth, glaucous, pruinose, glabrous, coarsely pungent. Phyllodes absent. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles 7–10 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, 20–30-flowered, bright light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals ±free. Pods linear, 3–9 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, coriaceous, faintly pruinose, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 4–4.5 mm long, subshiny, black, arillate.

Confined to granite outcrops on hillsides, in open eucalypt woodland; sometimes growing from crevices within the granite.

W.A.: near Northam [precise locality withheld for conservation reasons], S.Patrick 253 (PERTH).

Gazetted a rare species in W.A.

Data derived from Flora of Australia Volumes 11A (2001), 11B (2001) and 12 (1998), products of ABRS, ©Commonwealth of Australia

B.R.Maslin

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