Family

Fabaceae

Distribution

Occurs along the North West Coastal Hwy between c. 70 km N and c. 10 km S of the Murchison R., with one collection from near Kalbarri, W.A.

Description

Openly branched spreading shrub 0.4–1.3 m high. Branchlets appressed-puberulous with hairs ±straight. Phyllodes obovate to widely obovate or orbicular, often minutely apiculate, horizontally flattened, (3–) 5–10 mm long, 4–7 mm wide, l:w = 1–2. Pods shallowly to moderately arcuate. Seeds indistinctly mottled.

Habitat

Grows in sand and sandy loam, in open heath and mallee shrubland.

Specimens

W.A.: 30 km SE of Kalbarri, D.R. & B.Bellairs 1625 (PERTH); 12 km N of Murchison R. on North West Coastal Hwy, M.E.Trudgen 1684 (AD, BRI, MEL, NSW, PERTH).

Notes

Sometimes difficult to distinguish from the typical subspecies.

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