Common Name

Womel

Family

Fabaceae

Distribution

Restricted to the Roma–Mitchell area, southern Qld.

Description

Tree to 10 m high. Bark dark, furrowed. Branchlets glabrous, scurfy with white resin deposit. Phyllodes linear to very narrowly elliptic, straight to curved, (9–) 11–15 (-20) cm long, 4–8 (-12) mm wide, acute, occasionally slightly uncinate, coriaceous, grey-green, scurfy-resinous especially when young, glabrescent, with numerous closely parallel nerves of which 1–3 slightly more prominent than the rest. Inflorescences mostly 3–6-headed racemes; raceme axes 2–5 (-7) mm long; peduncles 3–10 mm long, scurfy, glabrous or sparsely appressed-puberulous, resinous; heads globular, 4–6 mm long, 30–60-flowered. Flowers 5‑merous; sepals ±free to 1/2-united. Pods very narrowly oblong to linear, flat, slightly raised over and irregularly ±constricted between seeds, straight to slightly curved, to 6.5 cm long, 4–8 mm wide, chartaceous, finely reticulate, glabrous. Seeds longitudinally oblique, broadly elliptic-oblong, c. 4 mm long, glossy, dark brown; aril small.

Habitat

Grows in texture contrast soils, usually in woodland of Eucalyptus populnea.

Specimens

Qld: Armadilla South Stn, 27 km SE of Morven, M.E.Ballingall 2389 (BRI, MEL, PERTH).

Notes

Its affinities are not clear but possibly related to A. melvillei.

FOA Reference

Data derived from Flora of Australia Volumes 11A (2001), 11B (2001) and 12 (1998), products of ABRS, ©Commonwealth of Australia

Author

R.S.Cowan

Minor edits by B.R.Maslin