Acacia grandifolia Pedley
WATTLE
Acacias of Australia
Family
Fabaceae
Distribution
Known only from 2 localities in the Burnett District, Qld.
Description
Tree to c. 8 m high. Bark furrowed, dark brown. Branchlets very acutely angular, stout, densely grey-velutinous. Phyllodes asymmetrically elliptic, ±straight, 7.5–15 cm long, 20–50 (–75) mm wide, coriaceous, stiff, with 3 or 4 prominent often yellowish main nerves running together near base, clothed with spreading hairs; minor nerves 2 or 3 per mm, widely spaced, conspicuously anastomosing with free nerve-endings; gland 1, conspicuous, basal. Spikes 4–9.5 cm long, golden. Flowers 5-merous; calyx 0.7–1 mm long, cupular, dissected to 1/5, ±coarse, pilose especially in upper 1/2; corolla 2–2.5 mm long; petals free, with prominent midrib, glabrous; ovary pubescent. Pods slightly constricted between but strongly raised over seeds, compressed-terete, 6–8 cm long, 5–6 mm wide, tomentose. Seeds longitudinal, 4–5 mm long; areole open.
Phenology
Flowers Sept.
Habitat
Occurring as open stands among sandstone outcrops in sand or in shallow, stony soils derived from basalt.
Specimens
Qld: State Forest, ‘Manar’ road, 22 km from Gayndah, P.I.Forster 7114 (BRI, NSW); 8 miles [12 km] E of Gayndah, L.Pedley 2897 (BRI, NSW).
Notes
Allied to A. crassa subsp. longicoma and A. longispicata subsp. velutina.
FOA Reference
Data derived from Flora of Australia Volumes 11A (2001), 11B (2001) and 12 (1998), products of ABRS, ©Commonwealth of Australia
Author
Dr M.D.Tindale and Dr P.G.Kodela with the assistance of M.Bedward, S.J.Davies, C.Herscovitch, D.A.Keith and/or D.A.Morrison
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