Common Name

Basedow’s Wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Distribution

Found in central Australia from Rawlinson Ra. and Skirmish Hill, W.A., E to Macdonnell Ra., N.T. and Musgrave Ra., S.A.

Description

Very similar to the more westerly distributed A. oxyclada but distinguished by branchlets with a conspicuous, flaking, white epidermis, phyllodes 5–20 mm long and 1–2 mm wide, peduncles 5–12 mm long and glabrous to subglabrous, and heads commonly 25–35-flowered; only old pod valves and no seeds seen.

Habitat

Occurs on rocky slopes of ranges.

Specimens

W.A.: Rawlinson Ra., J.R.Maconochie 815 (PERTH). N.T.: Mt Fraser, Mulga Park Stn, T.S.Henshall 167 (NSW, PERTH). S.A.: slopes of mountain E of Mt Woodroffe, Musgrave Ra., D.E.Symon 2675 (AD, K).

Notes

One of the diaphyllodinous species (see discussion under A. diaphyllodinea for definition and references); probably better treated as an infraspecific taxon of A. oxyclada, but seeds should be examined before any change is made.

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

Minor edits by J.Rogers