Family

Fabaceae

Distribution

Occurs from near the Stirling Ra. E to near Scaddan and N to near Hyden, W.A.

Description

Shrub to 1.5 m high. Branchlets glabrous or apices hirsutellous to antrorsely puberulous. Stipules normally caducous. Phyllodes linear-lanceolate, mostly shallowly recurved, some straight, flat and thickish but drying ±quadrangular when very narrow, 10–18 (–24) mm long, 1.2–2 mm wide, with adaxial margin normally shallowly convex; gland on lower half of phyllode 2–5 mm above base. Peduncles 3–5 (–8) mm long; heads 13–23 (–25)-flowered.

Habitat

Grows in sand, sandy loam or clayey loam, in open shrub mallee or Eucalyptus woodland over heath.

Specimens

W.A.: c. 46 km due SE of Hyden, B.R.Maslin 6368 (PERTH, Z); 56.3 km on Chester Pass Rd, K.Newbey s.n. (PERTH00918709); Scaddan, P.van der Moezel 372 (CANB, K, MEL, PERTH).

Notes

Although both subsp. recurva and subsp. sphacelata occur around Ongerup they are seemingly not sympatric. Individuals with broad phyllodes resemble A. siculiformis but are distinguished by their non-lenticular branchlets, 5-nerved phyllodes and arillate seeds.

FOA Reference

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

Author

Minor edits by J.Rogers

B.R.Maslin