Family

Fabaceae

Distribution

Occurs in Qld, between 25ºS and 20º30'S, and between 145º30'E and 148º20'E.

Description

Branchlets with scattered hairs or glabrous. Juvenile phyllodes densely pubescent with youngest ones red-brown, later ±glabrous. Mature phyllodes obliquely elliptic, (2–) 3–6 (–8) cm long, 6–16 (–23) mm wide, l:w = 2.5–5 (–8). Spikes 2.5–3 cm long. Pods terete, 2–5 mm wide. Seeds 3–4.5 mm long, 1.3–1.8 mm wide.

Phenology

Flowers May–July.

Habitat

Grows in yellow earths or stony skeletal soils on laterite or trachyte, in dense thickets with other Acacia spp. or in low eucalypt woodland.

Specimens

Qld: 6.4 km SE of Mt Coolan T.S. [Township], L.Adams 1105 (CANB, NSW); Mt Zamia, near Springsure, D.F.Blaxell 1498 & J.Armstrong (BRI, CANB, NSW); on road to Freds Gorge, Minerva Hills Natl Park, R.Johnstone 707 & S.Davies (BRI, PERTH); Burdekin Crossing, near Glendon, L.S.Smith 4609 (BRI, NSW).

Notes

According to L.Pedley, Austrobaileya 1: 140 (1978), subsp. curvinervia (as A. curvinervia) intergrades with the typical subspecies on the eastern side of its range.

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