Family

Fabaceae

Distribution

Coastal districts S of about Gladstone, Qld, to Bald Knob, northern N.S.W. Common in the understorey of open eucalypt forest.

Description

Phyllodes narrowly elliptic, commonly gradually narrowed to an acute apex, (6–) 7–15 cm long, 1–4 cm wide, l:w = 2.5–8, ±membranous; midrib often ±contiguous with lower margin for 5–10 mm above the pulvinus. Raceme axes and peduncles glabrous or sparsely to moderately appressed-puberulous with white hairs.

Specimens

Qld: near summit of Mt Larcom, S.T.Blake 22448 (BRI); south-eastern slopes of Mt Coot-tha, D.E.Boyland 662 (MEL). N.S.W.: Bald Knob, 6 Feb. 1971, K.Grieves (NSW, PERTH).

Notes

Geographic pattern of variation in Qld is discussed by L.Pedley, Austrobaileya 1: 268 (1980). Very similar to A. binervata.

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.Reid & J.Rogers