Family

Fabaceae

Distribution

Common from near Port Gregory S to Ongerup; also from the Southern Cross district, Ravensthorpe and near Peak Charles (Peak Charles is c. 95 km SW of Norseman), W.A.

Description

Shrub to 1.5 m high. Branchlets glabrous or apices hirsutellous to antrorsely puberulous. Stipules normally caducous. Phyllodes scattered, rarely a few clustered or subverticillate (2 or 3 per node), mostly straight, terete to quadrangular, 6–25 mm long, (0.5–) 0.6–1.3 mm wide, normally glabrous; gland near or above middle of phyllode, 3–8 mm above base. Peduncles (3–) 5–10 mm long, rarely 3–4 mm; heads 22–50-flowered. Pods 3–5 mm wide. Seeds 2.5–4 mm long.

Habitat

Grows in sand or laterite, commonly in heath, shrubland or mallee woodland. In the Darling Ra., E of Perth, it sometimes occurs in loam on granite outcrops.

Specimens

W.A.: Nanson, A.M.Ashby 4510 (AD, PERTH); 23.5 km SSE of Peak Charles, M.A.Burgman & S.McNee 1481 (PERTH); Swan R., J.Drummond 299 (K, OXF, P, PERTH); 21 km E of Karalee on the Great Eastern Hwy, B.R.Maslin 1853 (AD, PERTH); 38 km E of Lesmurdie, B.R.Maslin 6189 (PERTH).

Notes

Phyllodes commonly superficially resemble those of A. quadrisulcata.

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.Rogers