Family

Fabaceae

Distribution

Occurs from Darkan S to Albany.

Description

Prostrate sprawling subshrub 0.2 m high and to 0.5 m across. Branchlets sparsely antrorsely puberulous or glabrous. Phyllodes rather slender, (15–) 20–35 (–50) mm long, 1–1.7 mm wide. Peduncles (6.5–) 8–12 (–18) mm long, slender, 0.4 mm diam. (when dry), antrorsely puberulous; heads c. 5 mm diam. (when dry), 15–20-flowered; bracteoles 1–1.5 mm long. Calyx 1/3–1/2 length of corolla; petals c. 2 mm long, with midrib normally thick and prominent at petal apices.

Habitat

Grows in clay loam or sand, with some gravel, in Eucalyptus woodland.

Specimens

W.A.: near Cranbrook, 86.5 km N of Albany, Dec. 1927, W.E.Blackall s.n. (PERTH); 150 mile peg on Albany Hwy [near Arthur R.], B.R.Maslin 2614 (CANB, PERTH).

Notes

Sometimes resembling A. laricina var. laricina which is distinguished by its calyx lobes and bracteoles which are not long-acuminate and heads 20–30-flowered.

FOA Reference

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

Author

B.R.Maslin