Family

Fabaceae

Distribution

Occurs sporadically from Yellowdine and Coolgardie SE to Boingaring Rocks in southern W.A.

Description

Shrub or tree 1.5–3 m tall. Branchlets appressed-puberulous, glabrescent, resinous. Phyllodes patent to ascending, asymmetrically narrowly elliptic, straight or slightly recurved, (15–) 18–25 mm long, 3–6 mm wide, with upper margin curved with a slight gland angle 1/3–3/4 from base, rigid, glaucous aging green, glabrous except often tomentulose basally; apex acute, pungent; nerves numerous, closely parallel, fine; pulvinus to 0.5 mm long and encased in an often dark-coloured resin-mass. Inflorescences simple, 1 per axil; peduncles 2–5 mm long, ±appressed-puberulous; heads globular, 4–5 mm diam., 23–25-flowered, light golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free, linear to spathulate-linear. Pods and seeds not seen.

Habitat

Grows mainly on loam in eucalypt woodland and Melaleuca uncinata open scrub.

Specimens

W.A.: c. 17 km S of Norseman, R.J.Chinnock 3019 (PERTH); 0.8 km N of Yellowdine, R.Cumming 2473 (MEL, PERTH); 0.6 km E of Boingaring Rocks, K.Newbey 7428 (PERTH); Coolgardie, 11 Aug. 1901, L.C.Webster (PERTH).

Notes

Superficially similar to A. formidabilis.

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 J.Reid