Family

Fabaceae

Distribution

Scattered from near Watheroo SE to near Bruce Rock, south-western W.A.

Description

Intricate spreading shrub to 0.5 m high. Branchlets spinose, minutely woolly to appressed-pubescent, glabrescent. Stipules setaceous to narrowly triangular. Phyllodes ±patent to prominently reflexed, narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong, 4–7.5 mm long, 1–2.2 mm wide, pungent, with indumentum as on branchlets; midrib ±prominent; pulvinus distinct. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles 1.5–8 mm long, glabrous; heads globular, 18–22-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free, dark brown towards apex. Pods narrowly oblong, to 3 cm long, 2–2.5 mm wide, firmly chartaceous, tan, glabrous to subglabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong, 2.2–2.7 mm long, turgid, narrowed towards periphery, tan, obscurely mottled, arillate.

Habitat

Grows in sand in heathland or in rocky clay.

Specimens

W.A.: 11 km N of Watheroo on Geraldton Hwy, B.R.Maslin 4491 (MEXU, PERTH); Bruce Rock, Oct. 1932, E.T.Bailey s.n. (PERTH).

Notes

Resembling the uncommon broad phyllode forms of A. sessilis.

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