Family

Fabaceae

Distribution

Restricted to the Geraldton–Mullewa area, W.A.

Description

Spreading shrub 0.3–1.2 m high. Branchlets glabrous or puberulous with hairs spreading or appressed and straight or subcrisped. Phyllodes obovate to narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, planoconvex to horizontally flattened, shallowly concave above when dry, 3–7 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, l:w = 2–5, thick. Pods strongly arcuate to openly once-coiled.

Habitat

Grows in sand, sandy loam and gravel, in mallee shrubland.

Specimens

W.A.: Eradu, G.Phillips for A.M.Ashby 3852 (CANB, K, PERTH); Yuna, A.C.Burns 17 (PERTH).

Notes

Sometimes difficult to distinguish from subsp. leptospermoides. Judging from herbarium specimens the young phyllodes may be green and if so, this would be an additional useful character to distinguish the 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