Family

Fabaceae

Distribution

Known only from the Inverell area, N.S.W. Listed as an Endangered Species under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act, 1995.

Description

Shrub mostly 0.5–2 m high, oldest plants to 4 m. Phyllodes rigid, 2–4.5 cm long, 1–1.2 (–1.5) mm wide, longitudinally splayed at base for 2–6 mm, gradually tapered at apex to cusp 1.5–3.5 mm long; ±8-nerved (a yellow one at apex of each angle and an obscure or incomplete one inbetween). Peduncles 5–21 mm long; heads 17–25-flowered, 5–7 mm diam. (dry).

Phenology

Flowers May–July.

Habitat

Grows in deep clay soils over basalt on upper slope and crest of low hill in eucalypt woodland-pasture area.

Specimens

N.S.W.: Myall Creek Stn, T.Tame 6285 (BRI, CANB, MEL, NE, NSW, PERTH).

Notes

Very similar to subsp. planitiicola, particularly in habit, bark, phyllodes (sessile, sharply pungent and with distinctively dilated bases), floral features and Hakea fruit-like galls.

FOA Reference

Flora of Australia Project

Author

P.G.Kodela, B.R.Maslin