Acacia camptoclada C.R.P.Andrews
WATTLE
Acacias of Australia
Family
Fabaceae
Distribution
Occurs from Southern Cross and Newdegate E to Kanandah Stn and near Balladonia, W.A.
Description
Spreading glabrous shrub normally 0.2–1 m high. Branchlets often slightly viscid or vernicose. Stipules caducous. Phyllodes crowded, on slight stem-projections, ascending to erect, ±asymmetrically oblong-oblanceolate to narrowly oblong, with ±straight lower margin and with upper margin rounded at least near mucro, 7–17 mm long, 2–5 mm wide, obliquely mucronate to excentrically rostellate, with ±pungent mucro, green to glaucous, 1-nerved per face; lateral nerves few and obscure; gland at or above middle of phyllode. Inflorescences 2–5-headed racemes, enclosed when young by scarious brown bracts, frequently crowded in upper axils; raceme axes 0.5–4 mm long; peduncles 4–15 mm long, slender; heads showy, globular, 15–21-flowered, golden; bracteoles absent. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods once- or twice-coiled, sometimes irregularly so, 4–5 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous-crustaceous, sometimes pruinose. Seeds longitudinal, ovate to elliptic, c. 3 mm long, slightly shiny, black, exarillate.
Habitat
Grows in sand or loamy clay, in Eucalyptus woodland and mallee communities.
Specimens
W.A.: Gilmores, L.Diels 5281 (PERTH); 41 km N of Trans-line on W boundary fence of Kanandah Stn, Nullabor, G.J.Keighery 573 & J.J.Alford (PERTH); 24.5 km S of Mt Holland, B.R.Maslin 3947 (CANB, K, PERTH); 30 km W of Ponier Rock, c. 80 km SW of Balladonia Motel, Eyre Hwy, K.Newbey 7316 (PERTH).
Notes
A member of the ‘A. prainii group’ where it is most closely allied to A. prainii and A. dorsenna.
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
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