Family

Fabaceae

Distribution

Restricted to E of Wubin, W.A.

Description

Phyllodes flat, mostly 4–7 cm long, 3–4 (–6) mm wide, at first appressed-puberulous, glabrescent; tip curved, not pungent to coarsely pungent. Peduncles 3–5 mm long, bearing 15–25-flowered heads. Pods 5–10 cm long, light brown.

Habitat

Grows in red-brown sandy loam around margins of saline areas dominated by samphires.

Specimens

W.A.: E of Wubin [precise localities withheld for conservation purposes], B.R.Maslin 4210 (CANB, MEL, PERTH) and B.R.Maslin 7593 (MEL, PERTH).

Notes

This subspecies was described subsequent to the treatment of A. inceana by R.S.Cowan & B.R.Maslin, Fl. Australia 11B: 80 (2001).

Subspecies latifolia differs most readily from subsp. conformis by its wider phyllodes. Both subspecies occur in the Kalannie region but are not known to be sympatric and, unlike the typical subspecies, are associated with saline sites. Subspecies latifolia often superficially resembles A. enervia subsp. explicata which also occurs in saline sites in the Kalannie region.

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